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

A cut in the womb can vanish almost without a trace. The same injury a few days after birth leaves behind a scar.

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

We each shed millions of skin cells every day. A wealth of different types of cells lurk beyond the epidermis, the outer ...

In mice wounded three days before birth, the skin regenerated diverse cell types and closely resembled unwounded skin.

When Briarcliff High School soccer player Gabriella Auguste had ankle surgery after tearing two ligaments, she could not ...

Can we regrow damaged nerves? A new study identifies the AHR protein as the switch that limits axon regeneration.

Planarians are a striking model for studying regeneration owing to their extraordinary capacity to reform entire body structures from small tissue fragments. This ability is mediated primarily by ...

Intestinal Stem Cells (ISCs) derived from a patient's own cells have garnered significant attention as a new alternative for treating intractable intestinal diseases due to their low risk of rejection ...

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 ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study by Harvard stem cell biologists published March 20 in ...