The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...
The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea is an extraordinary animal. Even when cut into tiny pieces, each piece can regenerate back into a complete and perfectly proportioned miniature planarian.
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, ...
As you age you naturally lose neurons and muscle mass and experience a decline in fertility and wound healing ability. Previous research in animals has offered several potential techniques for turning ...
In the present study, we specifically crossed individuals with known genotypes. Using four highly polymorphic microsatellite loci, we compared genotypes of both adults and offspring to examine the ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Freshwater planarians have prodigious regenerative abilities that enable them to form complete organisms from tiny body fragments. This ...
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 at the University of Utah are among the first to use large-scale genetics to study the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, which contains a genome thought to contain insight into adult stem ...
Planarians are a striking model for studying regeneration owing to their extraordinary capacity to reform entire body structures from small tissue fragments. This ability is mediated primarily by ...
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