regeneration

Salamanders are renowned for their regenerative capabilities, such as growing back entire limbs. We can’t pull off…

Doctor Who has been on and off the air for nearly 54 years, and part of the key to the show’s longevity is that the…

If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan, you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s…

It sounds ripped out of the pages of a science fiction novel—or maybe a Lisa Frank catalog—but the genetically…

In what sounds like a plot line from a BioShock game, a team of biologists has coaxed an animal into growing a new…

For years, biologists have sought to understand how the genes of planarians, a group of free-living flatworms,…

Whatever you happen to call them—crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs—crayfish are pretty tasty. They also have a pretty…

Tomorrow sees the final bow of the Eleventh Doctor, as Matt Smith regenerates into Peter Capaldi. But "The Time Of…

Call it whatever you want—the Wolverine plastic, the Terminator material, the Doctor Who ingredient—but this new…

Crabs are red alien water tarantulas who regenerate like mutants. Just look at this crab literally climb out of its…

It’s hard to let go of some memories, even if your head has been chopped off. Well, at least if you’re a flatworm.…

Cut off part of an amphibian, and it'll regrow. But humans and other mammals can only regrew the very tips of our…

Frozen mosses that were buried under glaciers 400 years ago have now been regrown. Surprisingly, the hardy…

A couple of years ago, scientists working at Wake Forest Baptist confirmed that mammalian bladders are capable of a…

Let's face it, humans aren't too good at the whole "regenerating limbs" thing. In fact, the only way we can regrow…

We know there are a few species that don't die of old age, like the giant tortoise and naked mole rat. But those…

The cool trick about stem cells is that they're super adaptable, and can become any other sort of cell, right? So…

One cell is all it takes to rebuild a complete, functioning flatworm, researchers have learned.

Imagine that you're working on a home improvement project and, being a bit of a klutz, something goes wrong: a slip…

In an important breakthrough for regenerative medicine, cells have been grown from human livers that function…