Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

Under healthy conditions, the intestinal epithelium fully renews itself every three to five days. Aging and exposure to ...

For the first time, scientists have identified the specific cells that allow severely damaged tissue to regenerate after ...

The researchers have found that the increased expression of transcription factor DMTF1 can improve neural stem cell function, ...

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 ...

You might feel the same every day, but biologically, you never are. Beneath the surface, your body is constantly rebuilding ...

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

Actor Abhay Deol recently underwent stem cell therapy and hailed it for using body's own cells to promote healing. He had ...

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 ...

Plant regeneration relies on a delicate balance between stem cell renewal and differentiation, yet the evolutionary origin ...

Regeneration sounds like a superpower. It is the ability to regrow lost tissues, organs, or limbs. Some creatures, like axolotls or starfish, do this effortlessly. Their bodies replace what was ...