Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) are a critically endangered species of salamander. The species has only one natural habitat remaining, a series of canals in Mexico City, and only 50 to 1,000 axolotls ...

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 ...