regrow

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Zebrafish are another powerful regeneration model because they can repeatedly regrow damaged tail fins.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Scientists are developing new drugs to regrow hair, crowding into a market that’s barely evolved in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

When she ran for mayor four years ago, Karen Bass said she wanted to regrow the Los Angeles Police Department to the 9,500-officer force it was before the ranks began to shrink.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Scientists have discovered that an annual event when Emperor penguins completely shed and regrow their feathers is putting the birds in peril as Antarctica is transformed by a warming world.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

In gathering wild yams, they cut off most of the edible tuber but replaced the stems and tops of the tubers in the ground so that the tubers would regrow.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond