As time goes on, invasive species spread farther across the globe and cause damage to both the environment and the economy. One such species is the Obama flatworm, which has been spotted for the first ...

What if losing a limb was not the end of the story? In the animal kingdom, it often is not. New research shows that creatures like axolotls and flatworms do not just heal injuries, they also ...

Taking iron from the larvae of a pathogenic parasite is shown to reduce their survival rate and could provide a new way to treat it Figure 1: A light micrograph of the larva of the parasitic flatworm ...

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Planarians are flatworms most known for being able to grow a new head if it gets cut off, but perhaps even stranger is the fact that their new head retains some of the memories from the old one.

People have been asked to report invasive flatworm sightings after one was found for the first time on Alderney. Alderney Wildlife Trust and States of Alderney said there were reports of Obama ...

Researchers mapped planarian stem cells and found distant cells—not neighbors—guide regeneration, revealing a blueprint that could reshape human tissue repair, says Frederick "Biff" Mann. GOP members ...

Flatworms can rebuild themselves from just a small fragment, and now scientists know why. Their stem cells ignore nearby instructions and respond to long-distance signals from other tissues. This ...

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 ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...

Tiny pond worms could help find new ways to treat schizophrenia, develop understanding around drug addiction and test new medicines for mental illnesses – all while reducing the number of mice and ...

SOME SEA slugs are kleptomaniacs. Elysia crispata, a species of these marine molluscs found in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, is among the most notorious. When the slugs eat algae, their ...