Researchers have demonstrated that a genetic switch for organ regeneration exists, after restoring damaged outer ears in mice ...

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans.

“We discovered it’s essentially a single enzyme called CYP26b1, that regulates the amount of tissue that regenerates,” Monaghan says. CYP26b1 breaks down retinoic acid, so when the gene that makes the ...

A new study reveals the key lies not in the production of a regrowth molecule, but in that molecule's controlled destruction.

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

Scientists claim human bodies already know how to regrow a limb because they have already made one during a body's ...

Chinese scientists who discovered a 'genetic switch' that restored damaged mice ear tissue say their research could one day ...

Researchers compared rabbits and mice, reactivated a dormant gene, and triggered full tissue regrowth in a non-regenerating ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

Retinoic acid is important in the development of human embryos too, telling the cells where to grow a head, heads and feet, Monaghan explained. But for an unknown reason, ...