In Lila Guterman’s article “Hope Grows for Replacing Lost Limbs and Outworn Organs” (January 31), Ronald D.G. McKay is quoted as saying that for regeneration biology to contribute to medicine, “we ...

When humans lose a limb due to an injury, there are lifelong lifestyle changes that are necessary to accommodate the loss of the arm or leg. In some instances, the changes are minor, with people ...

Losing a limb or an organ is life-altering for most creatures, but not for all. Some animals have evolved regeneration skills that go far beyond healing scrapes or broken bones. These species can ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, maps out for the first time how Hydra, which are a group of small aquatic animals, can regenerate their own heads by ...

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A wide variety of distantly-related animals, including flatworms, newts and zebrafish, have robust abilities to regenerate damaged or missing body parts. A new study shows little evidence of a common ...

When it comes to regeneration, salamanders – and particularly axolotls – garner lots of attention. The rather adorable critters can completely regrow lost appendages dozens of times, and to a lesser ...