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

Scientists have stumbled upon what they’ve dubbed real-life “zombies.” These seemingly immortal things—amputated tissue from ...

Pieces of excised sea cucumber tissue have survived years and regrown parts. (Jobson et al., Sci. Adv., 2026) The oceans are ...

Now, though, scientists have discovered bits of tissue removed from a species of sea cucumber called Psolus fabricii can keep ...

But merely persisting forever may not be all it’s cracked up to be—especially if you are reduced to just lying there, unable ...

A core challenge in biology is understanding how processes in the body, such as cellular development and regeneration, unfold ...