When humans lose a limb due to an injury, there are lifelong lifestyle changes that are necessary to accommodate the loss of ...

Axolotls are native to Mexico and critically endangered in their habitat, but in scientific laboratories they're finally giving up their anti-aging, wound-healing secrets. Photograph By Raquel Saggin ...

Every week, Michael Levin receives calls and letters from people who have lost limbs. How this happened varies — industrial accidents, military injuries, birth defects, the list goes on — but they ...

Scientists have discovered that frogs have the ability to regrow limbs. It was already known that other animals, like salamanders, starfish, crabs and lizards could do the same. Researchers at Harvard ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that prevents our food from killing us, but also because it’s the only organ in ...

Axolotls are known for their ability to grow back just about any body part that is bitten off by a predator, but the trigger for this regeneration was a mystery until now. It turns out that retinoic ...

Humans may not be able to regrow amputated limbs like salamanders can -- but we do have a "salamander-like" ability to regrow damaged cartilage, a new study has found. Humans may not be able to regrow ...

Some unusual creatures have an innate ability to regrow a limb: salamanders, starfish, crabs, lizards and newts. Such extraordinary powers elude most animals, including humans, although scientists ...

Fully regenerated adult male of the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale, seen from the dorsal view, cuticular autofluorescence after excitation with blue light. (Georg Brenneis/Universität Greifswald) (AFP ...

The ability to regenerate lost body parts has long captured human fascination. Many creatures out in nature can perform feats of repair that far surpass our own abilities. For example, salamanders can ...