It sounds like science fiction, but scientists may have just taken a giant step toward a future where amputees regrow real ...

The zebrafish also can regenerate its heart, spinal cord, brain, retinas, kidneys and pancreas. Mice represent mammals like humans, and they already can regenerate the tips of their digits. Humans, ...

Could humans be capable of growing new limbs? Scientists are trying to figure that out with the aid of an unexpected resource: salamanders. Research shows that the amphibians' regeneration abilities ...

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Credit: Alice Accorsi/UC Davis/Cover Images A humble snail could hold the key to humans being able to cure blindness by regrowing lost or damaged eyes. Human eyes are complex and irreparable, yet they ...

View post: Rob Mac Reveals the Brutal Reality of Meeting His 'It's Always Sunny' Character (Exclusive) Salamander genes may help humans regrow limbs, offering hope for future regeneration therapies.

Learn how lab-grown brains could help scientists reawaken nerve regeneration.

Axolotls have a superpower: The adorable, perpetually smiling salamanders have the ability to regrow missing body parts in just a few weeks. Now, in a new study that scientists say could one day help ...

Apple snails can fully regrow their eyes, and their genes and eye structures are strikingly similar to humans. Scientists mapped the regeneration process and used CRISPR to identify genes, including ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, president and chief science officer of Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, has been studying planarian ...

Cambridge researchers created miniature brain-and-spinal-cord systems in the lab that can send signals and even trigger tiny ...