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 parasitic disease, ...
Similar to humans, planarians have brains, similar organs, and stem cells, so they are often used as model organisms for basic research. In addition, it is known that planaria has totipotent stem ...
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 ...
Among their many extraordinary feats, some planarian flatworms reproduce by tearing off pieces of themselves to regenerate new worms. Now, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...
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Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...
Among their many extraordinary feats, some planarian flatworms reproduce by tearing off pieces of themselves to regenerate new worms. Now, researchers have discovered that this process is controlled ...
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