James Monaghan

Professor James Monaghan, Biology Department Chair at Northeastern University College of Science: Does the axolotl salamander hold the key to human limb regeneration?  Professor Monaghan seems to think so!

Salamanders famously have the ability to regrow their limbs, but “one of the outstanding questions that has really plagued the field is how a salamander knows what to grow,” said James Monaghan, a Northeastern University biologist, to The Washington Post.

This paper gives us insight into how a limb knows to regenerate , something that has long been a mystery in the field,” says James Monaghan , a professor of biology at Northeastern University in Boston and senior author on the paper. 

Now, molecular biologist James Monaghan of Northeastern University has made a breakthrough that has allowed us to identify the driving force of regeneration—and maybe, one day, we will be able to give this power to humans.

“This species is special,” says lead author James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University, to Dino Grandoni at the Washington Post. The amphibians have “really become the champion of some extreme abilities that animals have.”

The complex mechanism by which it does this was revealed today by a research team coordinated by James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University.

“This species is special,” lead researcher James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, told The Washington Post. They have “really become the champion of some extreme abilities that animals have.”