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

Discover how golden apple snails' eye regeneration offers insights into restoring human vision through genetic understanding and CRISPR technology.

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 ...

Developmental plasticity of the planarians is well-illustrated by whole-body regeneration from any tissue fragments and body size scaling regulated by food intake. Here we report another form of ...

Planarians are flatworms that have a simple central nervous system (CNS) but an extraordinary ability to regenerate neural tissue. Their CNS is divided into distinct molecular and functional domains ...

Most animals follow a predictable biological script. They grow, reproduce, wear out, and then die. But a few species have missed that memo entirely. They regenerate lost body parts, halt aging, ...

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 ...

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 ...