It’s as if Peter Pan himself designed a salamander that refused to grow old, embracing perpetual childhood with every fiber ...

“We discovered it’s essentially a single enzyme called CYP26b1, that regulates the amount of tissue that regenerates,” Monaghan says. CYP26b1 breaks down retinoic acid, so when the gene that makes the ...

The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a ...

Could humans be capable of growing new limbs? Scientists are trying to figure that out with the aid of an unexpected resource ...

These Smiling Salamanders Are Helping Scientists Learn to Regrow Limbs WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — With their goofy grins and feathery gills, axolotls have become stars of the ...

Imagine, then, a jovial-looking salamander with a rounded snout and four stubby legs emerging from the ground at night. Under the cover of darkness, it hunts for food such as slugs, ants, crickets ...

The adorable salamanders are helping researchers probe a question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a lost arm or leg? With a silly smile and frilly ...

Wandering salamanders are also physically built for gliding: They have a relatively flat body, long legs, and feet that are larger in proportion to their bodies than those of most salamanders ...

A team at Northeastern University announced Tuesday they discovered a key to limb regeneration in axolotls, the smiley pink salamanders that have become a social media sensation, findings that ...

Hellbender salamanders call Tennessee and 14 other states in the United States home, including Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia. The "healthiest" of eastern hellbender salamander habitats was ...