Sentences with phrase «use flatworms»
Stubenhaus et al. also plan to use flatworms to screen for drugs that could potentially be developed into new treatments for porphyria.
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The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.
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 planarian Schmidtea mediterranea are flatworms with bilateral symmetry used as models in the research on cell regeneration and stem cells.
Using epigenetics triggers that change how the flatworms» DNA is expressed (rather than changing the DNA sequence itself) the group created a worm that has the body of one species of flatworm and the head and brain of another.
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.
Other model systems are emerging that use the same sperm fluorescence technique, such as in a flour beetle, Tribolium (also at Syracuse University), and in the transparent hermaphroditic flatworm Macrostomum lignano (at the University of Basel).
We used this method for profiling genes in the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni.
His current efforts are aimed at elucidating the molecular basis of regeneration using the free - living flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea.
- Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that use fleas as an intermediate host, then infect the kitten when a flea is eaten.