“The biomedical engineering aspect is actually making these new advancements to kind of understand and fix biology,” Tufts researcher Nirosha Murugan, who worked on the project, told Business Insider.

Axolotls are native to Mexico and critically endangered in their habitat, but in scientific laboratories they're finally giving up their anti-aging, wound-healing secrets. Photograph By Raquel Saggin ...

Could humans be capable of growing new limbs? Scientists are trying to figure that out with the aid of an unexpected resource: salamanders. Research shows that the amphibians' regeneration abilities ...

Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) have the incredible ability to regenerate limbs, and even entire organs. And of course, people want to know how we might get our own human bodies to do it, too. A team ...

Is augmenting human bodies with robotic parts something we can look forward to? Scientists in a new piece from The Guardian seem to think so. “If you want an extra arm while you’re cooking in the ...

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Every week, Michael Levin receives calls and letters from people who have lost limbs. How this happened varies — industrial accidents, military injuries, birth defects, the list goes on — but they ...

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A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans. Axolotls are native to Mexico and critically endangered in their ...