The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

If you dissect a planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)—a flatworm about half an inch long—into 279 tiny fragments, each fragment can regrow into an entire animal. New research from the lab of Alejandro ...

KANSAS CITY, MO-A new report from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research chronicles the embryonic origins of planaria, providing new insight into the animal's remarkable regenerative abilities.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Lila Guterman’s article “Hope Grows for Replacing Lost Limbs and Outworn Organs” (January 31), Ronald D.G. McKay is quoted as saying that for regeneration biology to contribute to medicine, “we ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. A tiny flatworm that regenerates entire organs. A South American snail that can regrow its eyes. A killifish that suspends ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During animal regeneration, cells must organize into discrete and functional systems. We show that self-organization, along with patterning ...

Planarians, small flatworms less than a centimeter long, have a rich and controversial history in the science of memory. It all began in 1955, when biopsychologist James McConnell and his colleague ...

Newts grow new legs, Hydra new heads. These remarkable creatures may hold clues for researchers developing human cellular therapies. But the connections are only now starting to be made. Helen Pearson ...