Some amputated limbs heal into scars. Others begin building themselves back. That split has long sat at the center of regeneration research. Salamanders and frog tadpoles can regrow lost limbs, while ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Six-year-old Omar Abu Kuwaik still believes that by his next birthday, his missing hand will have grown back. He is one of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost limbs and ...

Three children are feeling pure joy this December about "the best Christmas present in the world." Ettie Baker, age 8, Zoey Hampton-Pigeon, age 8, and Finn Jarvis, age 11, were all given ...

A rare circulatory problem required Emily Wheldon to have her left arm amputated three years ago. Her brain still thinks it's there. "Most days, it just feels like I've got my arm next to me," she ...

Ever since she was a little girl, Amy Jandrisevits has loved dolls. Her mother, a skilled seamstress, would make Amy her own stuffed friends. For years, she cherished them. But when she started to ...

Researchers collected images of lizards with missing limbs from experts around the world. Pictured here: an American green anole. Tony Gamble Jonathan Losos, a lizard biologist at Washington ...