What’s native only to Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, comes in rainbow colors and has a permanently thrilled expression? An axolotl, of course! It’s a species of salamander with distinctive exterior gills ...

The thymus produces the T cells in the body that target and destroy invading pathogens. Axolotls, the frilly-headed salamanders that stay in their ‘tadpole' form forever, have the ability to ...

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Axolotls are special salamanders because they can regenerate entire limbs! Axolotls are special salamanders. Not only to they stay in their juvenile form their whole lives, they can regenerate entire ...

Scientists are working toward establishing the Mexican salamander, or axolotl, as a laboratory model for the study of regeneration. With the ability to regenerate almost any body part, the axolotl is ...

It has long been understood, and by cultures too various to list, that salamanders have something of the supernatural about them. Their name is thought to derive from an ancient Persian vocable ...

With a fully sequenced genome in hand, scientists hope they are finally poised to learn how axolotls regenerate lost body parts. In a loudly bubbling laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientist Dr. Randal Voss gets the occasional reminder that he’s working with a kind of superstar. When he does outreach events ...

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