New research by an interdisciplinary team in Lithuania has revealed a promising and unconventional approach to cartilage ...

While some other creatures, most notably salamanders and starfish, can regenerate entire limbs, mammals don’t have this ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions took a closer look at how the gastrointestinal ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions took a closer look at how the gastrointestinal ...

Dynamic switching between revival stem cells and conventional intestinal stem cells enables efficient tissue repair without exhausting the stem cell pool, report researchers from Institute of Science ...

Experiments conducted in Brazil using laboratory rats have shown that graphene-based structures can act as a powerful ally in ...

A major focus of the research was a protein called HIF1A (hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha), which plays an important role in ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

It is well known that students who prepare in advance perform better in exams. Now, it appears that the skin can do the same.

A type of flatworms, called planarians, can regenerate whole organisms from pieces as small as one-279th of their body. 1 Depending on how these goofy-looking worms were cut, they could even come back ...