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Opinion: Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis
Opinion: Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis
Physicists, geneticists, computer scientists, and biologists are working together to gain a full appreciation of the intricacies of organismal growth and form.
Opinion: Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis
Opinion: Interdisciplinary Approach Needed to Crack Morphogenesis

Physicists, geneticists, computer scientists, and biologists are working together to gain a full appreciation of the intricacies of organismal growth and form.

Physicists, geneticists, computer scientists, and biologists are working together to gain a full appreciation of the intricacies of organismal growth and form.

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Adult Humans Can Regenerate Cartilage: Study
Shawna Williams | Oct 10, 2019 | 2 min read
Collagen inside ankles has more turnover than that in hips, thanks to the action of microRNAs.
Image of the Day: Double Header
Carolyn Wilke | Mar 8, 2019 | 1 min read
Scientists have manipulated the electrical signals that help guide flatworms in regenerating their body parts to encourage a flatworm to grow two heads.
Image of the Day: Spontaneous Regeneration
Carolyn Wilke | Feb 6, 2019 | 1 min read
The eel-like lamprey can return to normal swimming and burrowing after suffering a severed spinal cord twice.
Weak Magnetic Fields Manipulate Regeneration in Worms
Ruth Williams | Jan 30, 2019 | 3 min read
At magnetic field intensities somewhat above that of Earth, stem cell proliferation shifts gears.
Image of the Day: Transgenic Axolotl
Kerry Grens | Oct 3, 2018 | 1 min read
Lineage tracing reveals how cells help the salamanders regrow chopped-off limbs.
Image of the Day: Revival
Sukanya Charuchandra | Aug 17, 2018 | 1 min read
Salamanders’ and lizards’ tail regeneration depends on the quality of their neural stem cells.
RNA Injection Restores Hearing in Guinea Pigs
Abby Olena, PhD | Apr 18, 2018 | 4 min read
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
Vision Restored: The Latest Technologies to Improve Sight
Anna Azvolinsky | Apr 10, 2018 | 5 min read
Cell implants, gene therapy, even optogenetics are making headway in clinical trials to treat various forms of blindness.  
Researchers Develop a Technique to Regenerate the Mouse Thymus
Jim Daley | Jan 12, 2018 | 3 min read
The discovery reveals the role of a growth factor and endothelial cells in thymus repair, and could have implications for chemotherapy and radiation patients’ recovery following treatment.
Support Cells Gain Stem Cell-Like Properties After Nerve Injury
Diana Kwon | Dec 1, 2017 | 2 min read
When peripheral nerves are severed, Schwann cells at the injury site begin to proliferate and exhibit stem cell-like gene expression patterns.
Basic Science in Orbit
Abby Olena, PhD | Aug 17, 2017 | 5 min read
Studying biology in space sheds light on future space missions and life on Earth.
Image of the Day: Reunited and It Feels So Good
The Scientist | Jul 28, 2017 | 1 min read
Zebrafish have a remarkable ability to heal their damaged nerve fibers following a spinal injury.
Electrical Stimulation Steers Neural Stem Cells
Ashley Yeager | Jul 3, 2017 | 3 min read
Current can guide implanted cells away from rats’ noses toward a region deep in their brains.
Cytoskeletons Direct Hydra Regeneration
Joshua A. Krisch | Feb 9, 2017 | 3 min read
Although hydra are known for regenerating even under the most dire circumstances, disrupting their cytoskeletal structures can interfere with the process, scientists show.
Image of the Day: New Beginnings
The Scientist | Feb 7, 2017 | 1 min read
Water-dwelling hydras may use the structural memory in their cytoskeletons to regenerate after being torn apart. 
Immune Cell–Stem Cell Cooperation
Sarthak Sinha, Jeff Biernaskie, and Waleed Rahmani | Jul 1, 2016 | 10+ min read
Understanding interactions between the immune system and stem cells could pave the way for successful stem cell–based regenerative therapies.
Latest on Disputed “Youthful” Protein
Kerry Grens | Apr 4, 2016 | 2 min read
Studies reach conflicting conclusions on GDF11 as a rejuvenating factor.
New Data Attempt to Resolve Protein Dispute
Kerry Grens | Oct 22, 2015 | 2 min read
The latest analysis on GDF11, a proposed antiaging protein, blames discrepancies in the literature on misreported doses and misinterpretation.
Genome Digest
Karen Zusi | Sep 30, 2015 | 4 min read
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
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