Sentences with phrase «regenerating flatworms»
Scientists in the lab of Whitehead Member Peter Reddien have discovered that the gene Smed - beta - catenin - 1 is required for proper decisions about head - versus - tail polarity in regenerating flatworms.
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«This flatworm can regenerate every part of its body except the brain,» says Hannon.
Now that scientists have figured out how to restore the flatworm's ability to regenerate, are humans next?
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.
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.