Understanding more about an organism's ability to regenerate could help us develop therapeutics for serious injury or even degenerative diseases. There are not many examples of regeneration to look to ...
Researchers report that they have identified genes that control growth and regeneration of the intestine in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. How animals repair their internal organs ...
A new chronicles the embryonic origins of planaria, providing new insight into the animal's remarkable regenerative abilities. A new report from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research chronicles ...
If you dissect a planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)—a flatworm about half an inch long—into 279 tiny fragments, each fragment can regrow into an entire animal. New research from the lab of Alejandro ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A study of peptide hormones in the brain of a seemingly primitive flatworm reveals the surprising complexity of its nervous system and opens up a new approach for combating a major ...
image: Tufts University biologists developed an artificial intelligence system that for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planaria--the small worms whose extraordinary ...
Why are so few species able to regenerate damaged or missing body parts, even though regeneration might seem an obvious survival advantage? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for ...
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Scientists hiking a forest trail in Chile found a “giant” flatworm eating an invasive species in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said. Screengrab from Walk the South’s YouTube video While ...
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