Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, scientists have studied planarians as the poster child for regeneration. (CREDIT: Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Biologists are keen to understand how a type of flatworm known as a planarian uses powerful stem cells to regenerate an entire body from a... Nelson Hall wants you to know that the googly-eyed ...

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 ...

Tests for skin treatments could be screened using flatworms rather than other animals such as rabbits, according to new research. A team at the University of Reading and Newcastle University have ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, president and chief science officer of Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, has been studying planarian ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers report in the journal Developmental Cell that they have identified genes that control growth and regeneration of the intestine in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...

A new, accurate screening tool for clinical skin products has been developed which uses flatworms rather than rabbits. Tests for skin treatments could be screened using flatworms rather than other ...

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The ability of some animals to regenerate body parts has been a source of fascination since at least the eighteenth century. In recent years, the power of molecular genetics has been brought to bear ...

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 ...

Nelson Hall wants you to know that the googly-eyed flatworm he just sliced into four pieces is going to be OK. In fact, it's going to be great. Three of the flatworm's four pieces have started to ...