"People have been aware of planarians' regenerative capacity for more than 100 years. But very little is known about how they regenerate and why they live seemingly forever," said Guo, who is a ...

Planarians, flatworms capable of regeneration, offer unique insights. These creatures can rebuild entire parts of their bodies, including their heads. The team led by Longhua Guo at the University ...

Researchers at the University of Utah are among the first to use large-scale genetics to study the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, which contains a genome thought to contain insight into adult stem ...

As China's first space experiment involving planarians, the Shenzhou-20 mission will study the effects of space on planarian regeneration using head, middle and tail segments, with potential ...

Here are three of these amazing creatures. The ability of planarian worms to regenerate themselves if split in two has been known since the late 19th Century, but these animals went viral in 2012 ...

SPECIMENS of Planaria albissima, Vejd., a Triclad Turbellarian not hitherto known to occur in Britain, have been collected in the environs of Aberystwyth, Wales. My preliminary identification was ...

Longhua Guo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology at U-M Medical School, has been interested in planarians (Schmidtea mediterranea ...