New research links oxygen sensing to why frog tadpoles regrow limbs while mammals fail to do so. (CREDIT: iStock Photo) Some ...

Scientists have discovered the key to how salamanders regenerate their limbs - something mammals are unable to do.

Cut off an axolotl’s leg, and within weeks a knob of cells called a blastema will sprout from the wound and rebuild the ...

Ever since she was a little girl, Amy Jandrisevits has loved dolls. Her mother, a skilled seamstress, would make Amy her own stuffed friends. For years, she cherished them. But when she started to ...

Investigating a common gene in three very different species—salamanders, mice and zebrafish—scientists have discovered the potential for a novel gene therapy aimed at eventually regrowing limbs in ...