Sentences with phrase «flatworm experiments»

Flatworm experiments that showed worms could retain a memory after losing and regrowing their heads reminded reader Will Juncosa of a similar science fair experiment that he and his brother attempted.

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Inspired by flatworm memory experiments from the 1950s, researchers are on the hunt for the elusive engram — the physical mark that a memory leaves on the brain — Laura Sanders reported in «Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories» (SN: 2/3/18, p. 22).

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

The experiments also show that starvation increases the rate of pigment cell loss in light - exposed flatworms, which mirrors the worsening of disease symptoms some porphyria patients experience when they diet or fast.