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

BEIJING -- China's space station is set to introduce a novel participant in its space science experiments -- the planarian, a creature renowned for its extraordinary regenerative capabilities, China ...

Scientists have long been intrigued by the ability of flatworms to regenerate complete bodies from small fragments of tissue. The underlying mechanisms behind this process have remained relatively ...

When a planarian flatworm loses its head, it simply grows another. The head, if left alone, can grow a body to match. In a few days, two worms slither where one once was. That astonishing feat has ...

Planarian flatworms pictured in the Stowers Institute’s planarian facility. A recent discovery from Stowers scientists may help explain the flatworm’s extraordinary ability to regenerate — and could ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

Stowers scientists discover new rules about how flatworm stem cells regrow body parts, offering insights into potential tissue repair and regenerative medicine in humans. "For instance, human ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...