Unlike most multicellular animals, planarian flatworms can regrow all their body parts after they are removed. This makes them a good model for studying the phenomenon of tissue regeneration. They are ...
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Overactivating activin signaling by injection, chimerism, or bacterial infection triggers flatworm ruptoblasts to burst and clear nearby cells in seconds
A team led by Stanford biologist Bo Wang and lead author Chew Chai has identified a previously unknown type of immune cell in ...
For years, land flatworms were thought to spread mostly through plant sales. Worms or their eggs would hitch a ride in potted soil, move through nurseries, and end up in new gardens. That explained ...
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and partnering institutions have discovered that Schmidtea polychroa, a flatworm capable of regenerating lost tissue, develops this ability progressively ...
As if it were ripped straight from the pages of a classic sci-fi story or horror genre film, scientists from Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads and ...
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'Try not to smash it with your shoe': Homeowner receives warnings after sharing photo of extremely long worm found on patio
"I looked closer today and don't see a hammerhead." ...
Scientists report that electrical activity is the first known step in the tissue-regeneration process of planarian flatworms, starting before the earliest known genetic machinery kicks in and setting ...
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