Cut off any part of this worm's body and it will regrow. This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The flatworms are known for their extraordinary ability to regenerate themselves after almost every kind of injury, a process that involves a ...

Once again, hammerhead flatworms are wriggling into the spotlight — this time in Canada. The toxic and invasive pests, which originate from Southeast Asia, have the ability to regenerate even if ...

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 ...

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 ...

Live imaging of a planarian flatworm adult pluripotent stem cell shows membrane localization of the TSPAN-1 protein (green). DNA is stained blue. Scale bar is 10 micrometers. Disclaimer ...