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 ...

Planarians, the tiny flatworms famed for their regeneration superpowers, are revealing surprising secrets about their genomes. New high-quality genome assemblies show that while their DNA structure ...

Planarian flatworms exhibit an extraordinary capacity for whole‐body regeneration, driven by a ubiquitous population of adult pluripotent stem cells known as neoblasts. These cells maintain continuous ...

A year after Indian researchers declared that they had discovered a new regenerative flatworm species in Pune’s Pashan Lake, scientists at Lund University, Sweden, have claimed they have harnessed the ...

Multiple invasive worm species, including hammerhead worms and Asian jumping worms, are spreading across North America, raising ecological concerns. These species damage soil health, outcompete native ...

Planarian flatworms, a diverse assemblage of free-living Platyhelminthes, have long challenged taxonomists owing to their limited morphological features and prevalence of cryptic diversity. Over the ...

Planarian flatworms have a wild superpower: they can fully regrow their brains using special stem cells called neoblasts. Even more impressive, after growing a whole new brain, these little worms ...

Spring is a season of rebirth, a time when nature seems to wake up from the dead. Brown lawns flush green, bare branches bud and flower, and animals that seemed gone for good suddenly reappear. Hidden ...

Highlights of last week’s convention of the National Academy of Sciences at Brown University (Providence, R. I.): Totipotency. When a flatworm (Planaria maculata, which inhabits fresh water) is cut ...

In most animals, stem cells are found in specific regions known as niches. The local environment in human bone marrow tightly regulates stem cells. This local control restrains growth and prevents ...