This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of freshwater flatworms known as planarians. The lab of Whitehead Institute Member Peter Reddien investigates the principles underlying ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- China's space station is set to introduce a novel participant in its space science experiments -- the planarian, a creature renowned for its extraordinary ...

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 ...