The ability to regenerate body parts has always been a fascinating prospect, inspiring characters like Wolverine who can instantly heal themselves and regrow body parts they've lost — and now ...

Establishment of whole-body regeneration competence during S. polychroa development. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.065 ...

Newts unleashed: Limb muscle regeneration needs metamorphosis and body growth. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220802105035.htm ...

In some organisms, injuries to one part of the body induce a healing response in another. New evidence suggests this whole-body response isn’t a side effect: it’s the main feature.

The unique Botrylloides whole body regeneration process could serve as a new in vivo model system for regeneration, suggesting that retinoic acid signaling may have had ancestral roles in body ...

Some lizards and other animals can lose their body parts, ... Santa Barbara, said via email that asexual members of a colony share a circulatory system and are capable of whole body regeneration.

After disconnecting its head from its body (far left, arrow points to the heart), a process that can take several hours, an Elysia cf. marginata sea slug gradually grows a whole new body. By day 7 ...

A mouse injured on one leg experiences an “awakening” of stem cells in the other leg as if the cells are preparing to heal an injury. Something similar happens in axolotls, which are masters at limb ...

Our closest invertebrate relative, the humble sea squirt, can regenerate its entire body from just tiny blood vessel fragments, scientists now report. The entire regeneration process, which in ...

The researchers first had to determine what specific parts of a tapeworm’s body are capable of regeneration. Tapeworms grow in segments, and while some parts of the worms can act as seeds to ...