After observing important similarities between planarians and their disease - causing cousins, Newmark and former postdoctoral fellow Jim Collins (now a professor at UT Southwestern) took the radical step of applying their knowledge of planarians to studying
schistosome biology.
Not exact matches
In the early 1970s, I majored in human
biology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where my faculty adviser's research interest was in the biochemistry of
schistosomes.
Insights gained from our basic research on planarian
biology have also led us to study parasitic flatworms, like
schistosomes and tapeworms.
The data obtained provide a wealth of information on the reproduction
biology of
schistosomes and a rich resource for exploitation through basic and applied research activities.