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Severed body parts from a sea cucumber survived for over three years in a lab, healing themselves and absorbing nutrients ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

This video is no longer available. Research into harnessing the ability of the body’s immune system to encourage severely injured tissue to regenerate has landed a Maryland researcher on a Time ...

March 9, 2012 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the first cell-based product to repair gum problems, allowing oral surgeons and periodontists to regenerate gum tissue instead ...

Experimental osteoarthritis therapies repaired damaged joints in animals and may enter clinical trials within 18 months.

The rising incidence of cancer worldwide has led to an increasing number of surgeries that involve the removal of lymph nodes. Although these procedures play a major role in cancer staging and ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that prevents our food from killing us, but also because it’s the only organ in ...

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from engineering, biology, and materials science to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue ...

Scientists from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University succeeded in regenerating fully functional urinary ...