Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and partnering institutions have discovered that Schmidtea polychroa, a flatworm ...

As China's first space experiment involving planarians, the Shenzhou-20 mission will study the effects of space on planarian regeneration using head, middle and tail segments, with potential ...

While some animals like mammals have a limited ability to regenerate lost tissues, planarians can be cut roughly in half and ...

Planarian flatworms regenerate their heads and tails after amputation. It turns out that they use Wnt–β-catenin signalling to determine where the head and the tail should form. Figure 1 ...

Exposure to weak magnetic fields can, depending on their strength, either slow or boost flatworm regeneration, according to a report in Science Advances today (January 30). The study provides evidence ...

Regeneration of tissues and organs is one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology. Whitehead Member Peter W. Reddien works to shed light on that mystery through research on the planarian Schmidtea ...

Planarians, flatworms with an evolutionary history ... when bisected, planarians can regenerate lost muscles, skin, intestines, and even an entire brain from each segment -- a process that can ...