Learn how testing different environmental conditions may unlock mammals’ potential to regrow limbs and what it means for ...

For many years, scientists have noticed an interesting pattern. People who live at high altitudes, where the air contains less oxygen, tend to have lower rates of diabetes compared to those living ...

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Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes than people living closer to sea level. But the mechanism of this protection ...

Marine life receives its oxygen from warm water on the ocean's surface, but if there's no mixing with the colder water sitting below, then bottom-dwelling marine life, like lobsters, are unable to ...

Some animals can regrow lost body parts. Salamanders and frog tadpoles can rebuild entire limbs after amputation. Mammals ...

A recent study explored one possible cause -- hyperoxia or high concentrations of oxygen given to such patients during surgery -- as opposed to doses more similar to air. The study concluded that ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Oxygen is the breath of life, right? Because it ...

Low oxygen levels trigger the early phase of limb regeneration in mammals by stabilizing the protein HIF1A. This promotes rapid wound healing and primes the activation of genes required for ...

Practically all of the ocean floor remains a mystery to humans, but robotic floats may soon change that shortcoming. In a ...