The eye of the apple snail is unusually similar to a human eye-but, unlike human eyes, it can regrow itself if injured or even amputated. New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

When a salamander loses a leg, it grows back. When a zebrafish loses a fin, it grows back. When a mouse loses a fingertip, it ...

Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer ...

Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that may one day help humans regrow ...

Researchers have successfully regenerated skeletal and connective tissue, although the new tissue was not perfectly formed.

When a salamander loses a leg, the stump does not simply heal over. Within days, cells at the wound site begin dividing, ...

How rich a tissue is in hyaluronic acid and how well it can sense oxygen may affect its ability to regrow and heal, a pair of ...

Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only manage a few millimeters at the tip of a finger. This wide range in ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack in humans, a process that ...