The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) has extraordinary regenerative abilities—the salamander can regrow lost limbs and repair ...

Jessica Whited, a biologist at the Brigham Regenerative Medicine Center, is studying how salamanders are able to regrow ...

The axolotl is a powerful model for understanding regeneration, however, studying the axolotl’s nervous system has been ...

Larger species face higher cancer risks but those that reached that size rapidly evolved mitigating mechanisms.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god.

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in ...

This could be due to differences in their regenerative abilities. Some amphibians, like salamanders, can regenerate entire limbs – a process that involves lots of cell division, which cancer ...

From a groundbreaking find to a global disaster. This is how one species and human error endangered amphibians everywhere.

This could be due to differences in their regenerative abilities. Some amphibians, like salamanders, can regenerate entire limbs - a process that involves lots of cell division, which cancer could ...