In nature, survival often depends on adaptability, and some animals have taken this to a fascinating level by developing the ...

Cockroaches are infamous for their survival skills. They breathe through tiny holes in their body segments and have ...

Sea stars have the capacity to regenerate their tube feet and ray arms after accidents. Most sea stars, also known as starfish, have five limbs, but some have as many as 40. Because the majority of ...

Beneath the rough/choppy/tumultuous waves of the Bay of Bengal, a kaleidoscope of marine life thrives just 8-12 km off ...

They can regrow limbs, tails, and even parts of their heart and brain. Key to their regenerative process is a structure called the blastema, a mass of cells capable of growth and regeneration.

Sea stars, commonly known as starfish, are true masters of regeneration. If a sea star loses an arm, not only can it regrow the missing limb, but in some cases, a lost arm can grow into an entirely ...

Axolotl limbs regenerate functional body parts in just weeks, relying on cells that retain positional memory. A study led by Elly Tanaka’s team at IMBA reveals that the Hand2 gene marks the posterior ...

Read the paper: Molecular basis of positional memory in limb regeneration A cell’s ‘positional memory’ maintains information about the cell’s original spatial location in a body part.

Fortunately, lost limbs regrow and are functional in as few as eight weeks. To achieve this feat, the regrowing body parts must "know" their position within the axolotl body to regenerate the ...

With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists from the lab of Elly Tanaka at IMBA now found ...