Can humans regrow limbs? A lab study with frogs offers hope

Can humans regrow limbs? A lab study with frogs offers hope

Weekly, Michael Levin receives phone calls and letters from people who have lost limbs. How this happened varies — industrial accidents, military injuries, birth defects, the list goes on — but they approach Levin, a professor and director of the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University, with the same question: When can … Read more

Lab where horrifying secret footage showed monkeys scream in pain could reopen

Lab where horrifying secret footage showed monkeys scream in pain could reopen

A lab where secret, horrific footage showed monkeys screaming in pain was closed. The disturbing video, which was secretly shot in the Laboratory for Phramacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Hamburg, was published by animal rights activists last year. It showed monkeys screaming in pain when they were tested. The film also appears to feature cats … Read more