USC researchers’ experiment helps inform efforts to improve wound-healing in humans. Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can…
Muscle is known to regenerate through a complex process that involves several steps and depends on stem cells. Now, a new study led by researchers…
When it comes to regeneration, some animals are capable of amazing feats. If you cut off a salamander’s leg, it will grow back. When threatened,…
Doctors, health organizations, and the U.S. surgeon general all agree that exercise is good for the heart. But the reasons why are not well understood….
Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered a framework for regeneration that may explain and predict how stem cells in adult, regenerating tissue determine where to…
A team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden and Heidelberg has decoded the entire genetic information of the Mexican salamander axolotl. The axolotl…
The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea is an extraordinary animal. Even when cut into tiny pieces, each piece can regenerate back into a complete and perfectly…
At first glance, a pair of award-winning images created by University of Southampton postgraduate researcher Catarina Moura seem to have a seasonal theme. But look…
Scientists from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified a compound that helps protect the cells destroyed by spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most frequent…
A newly published study from Harvard biologists shows how neurons can be dramatically changed from one type into another from within the brain and how…
Using CRISPR Cas technology, researchers genetically ‘edit’ human blood stem cells to create what could prove to be an effective technique for blocking HIV. Harvard…
In two new studies, researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute show that injections of GDF11 improved the exercise capability and the function of the…