Scientists have discovered a key biological safeguard that helps one of nature's most impressive regenerators, the planarian ...

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 ...

Planaria are freshwater flatworms that have become a key model for studying regeneration and stem cells, as they can regenerate any part of the body, even the head. But how does the animal know what ...

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 ...

For those of us whose memory of high school biology hasn’t faded entirely, planarians will probably sound very familiar. They’re generally used as an example of one of the extreme ends of regenerative ...

Imagine an animal that can regrow its whole body — head, brain, organs, and all — from just a small fragment.

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 ...

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 ...