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

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.

Starfish, or sea stars, are well-known residents of the ... This ability supports their resilience in the wild and has piqued the interest of researchers examining limb regeneration and developmental ...

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 ...

Living in a murky lake around Mexico City, surrounded by aggressive and cannibalistic neighbors, the axolotl lives at constant risk of losing a limb to a neighbor's nibble. Fortunately, lost limbs ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...