Imagine this: you accidentally lose an arm or a leg, and instead of rushing to the hospital, your body just grows it back.

Earlier this year, a Harvard research team studying the axolotl, a salamander with the superpower to regrow body parts, lost ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a ...

Scientists have created the world’s first mosquito cell map, revealing how these insects spread diseases like dengue and Zika.

Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, ...

Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Salamanders use stress signals to prep their whole body to regrow limbs - offering new clues for human healing.

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental ...

Scientists say they need better access to human brain tissue to understand how dementia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, autism, ...