Planarian flatworms are only a few millimeters up to a few centimeters in length, live in freshwater and are the object of intense research, because they possess the extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue with the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2009
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Few animals can rival the amazing regeneration abilities of the flatworms known as planarians: When the worms' tails or heads are cut off, they grow new ones, and even a tiny piece of planarian tissue can regrow an entire ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2013
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A parasitic flatworm that infects hundreds of millions of people in the developing world is able to survive in the bloodstream for decades by constantly renewing its skin - a mechanism that could inform potential new treatments ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2016
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Research undertaken by the Cardiff University Otter Project has revealed a number of disease-causing parasites in the bodies of dead otters. The findings were revealed at the BBC Summer of Wildlife event held at the National ...
Ecology
Jun 18, 2013
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A hundred animal or plant new species are described each year in metropolitan France. In most cases, these are native species, present here for a long time, but which had so far escaped the attention of scientists. In a very ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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Unlike humans, planarian flatworms have the remarkable ability to regrow any missing body part, making them an ideal model with which to study the molecular basis of regeneration.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2013
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Using a technique that involves analyzing thousands of single cells, scientists have figured out a new way to capture a stem cell that underlies flatworm regeneration.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2018
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Parasitic flatworms known as agents of food-borne zoonoses were confirmed to use several species of thiarid snails, commonly found in freshwater and brackish environments in southeast Asia, as their first intermediate host. ...
Ecology
Feb 26, 2021
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Cilia, microscopic whip-like organelles that protrude from the surface of many cell types, are almost ubiquitous. They are present in all eukaryotes—organisms whose cells have a nucleus—and have diversified to perform ...
Biotechnology
Jan 2, 2013
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Researchers in Oakland University's Department of Biological Sciences have published a study that employs statistical models to analyze host-parasite relationships—in this case between tadpoles (hosts) and flatworms (parasites). ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2022
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