Sentences with phrase «from flatworm»

To take another prominent example, a low - calorie diet is known to increase the life spans of creatures ranging from flatworms to rats, but no one knows why, or whether it will help humans live longer.

Short for «evolutionary developmental biology,» Evo Devo posits that the same set of master genes, with differing on - off switches, controls the development of basic body structures in animals ranging from flatworms to humans.

Not exact matches

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).

One of those ideas comes from the work of James Vernon McConnell, who reported some six decades ago that memories could somehow be transferred from one flatworm to another.

Now, a team of scientists from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) have found that many messenger molecules in the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea have alternate forms that vary in the lengths and positions of their tails.

This flatworm investigation does not require power or interaction from the station crew.

A team of researchers from Kentucky Space LLC and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, will use the worms to observe repair processes and wound - healing done by cells in space during the Flatworm Regeneration investigation.

The flatworm is ideal for studying stem cells, says lead author Kaja Wasik, who conducted the work as a PhD student in Hannon's lab along with co-lead author James Gurtowski from Schatz's lab.

About 15 international research groups on three continents are actively working on Macrostomum flatworms, says co-author Lukas Schärer from the University of Basel.

Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm native to southern Europe and Tunisia, turns from brown to white when exposed to sunlight for 24 or more hours, as scientists discovered when they were studying regeneration in the species.

Newmark, currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, studies a freshwater flatworm called a planarian, a remarkable creature capable of regenerating its entire body from scratch.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When cut, a planarian flatworm can use a population of stem cells called neoblasts to regenerate new heads, new tails or even entire new organisms from a tiny fragment of its body.

Insights gained from our basic research on planarian biology have also led us to study parasitic flatworms, like schistosomes and tapeworms.

River waters worldwide are impacted by disease - causing agents including bacteria, protists, flatworms, viruses, and harmful algae that derive from domestic sewage and farm runoff, and / or are emergent due to nutrient pollution and climate change.

«Dog flatworms are contracted through contact with feces or from drinking in something from a body of water.

Highlights: Aside from the wreck itself, Grey Reef Shark, Great Barracudas, Pufferfish and various Flatworms.

The visibility, even though limited, did nt keep the divers from encountering a Barramundi Grouper, a couple of Wobbeng Sharks, a Pygmy Seahorse, a Crocodile Flathead together with other macro life found (nudibranchs and flatworms) on the hard and soft coral present especially on the shallower part of the dive site.

And our expert guide Ranti from Thalassa Dive Resort found us this polyclad flatworm on the back of a sea cucumber.

The highlights were plentiful, ranging from Wobbegong Shark, pointed out by the Divemaster Jemy, Pygmy Cuttlefish, Papuan and Tasseled Scorpionfish, Decorator Crab ad a few different nudibranchs and flatworms.

Taking part in the award for the second time this year, Felipe Meres, inaugurates «The Telomeric Cuts», which parts from a series of micrographs representing the process of cutting and regenerating hermaphroditic planarian flatworms.