A new dangerous invasive species — the ocher flatworm — has been found in the Nordic countries. The species has not yet been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...