SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows a key genetic pathway for cell growth and division is similar in both humans and flatworms, or planarians.
... MDC points out (PNAS, Early Edition)*. Research suggests that the regeneration of the flatworm involves hundreds of genes. But how are these genes regulated? With the latest technologies researchers ...
... the earliest steps in the differentiation of adult stem cells in planarians—tiny flatworms that have the uncanny ability to regenerate cells and may have much to teach about human stem cell biology. ...
Any way you slice it, the planarian's contributions to biological research just keep on growing.
... to study known mammalian adult stem cell disorders. This research, conducted with the flatworm planaria, highlights the genetic similarity between these invertebrates and mammals in the mechanisms by ...
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... possibility of more complex animals in the Ediacaran -- soft corals, some arthropods, and flatworms -- but the evidence has not been totally convincing," he said. "But if you find evidence, like we ...
Ecologists firm up link between agricultural chemicals and potentially devastating flatworm infections
... of South Florida (USF) and colleagues revealed that chemical pollution can increase often deadly trematode (parasitic flatworm) infections in the northern leopard frog, a declining amphibian species.
... , corals, and jellyfish) evolved in parallel to "higher" animals (all other metazoans, from flatworms to chordates). It also appears that Placozoans—large amoeba-shaped, multi-cellular animals—have ...
A major group of tapeworms, parasitic flatworms that live on host nutrients, has been discovered.
... animal species from other parts of the world: from the American mink to the New Zealand flatworm. The invaders feed on, hybridise with, parasitise and out-compete native species. They also introduce ...
... the parasites develop resistance to praziquantel.
While working in a different species of flatworm widely used to study the basic principles of regenerative biology, researchers in the ...
... on transgenic axolotls at UF as part of the The Regeneration Project, an effort to treat human brain and other diseases by examining regeneration in salamanders, newts, starfish and flatworms.
... analysis of approximately 12,000 genes encoded in the nuclear DNA of Schistosoma mansoni, the flatworm that causes schistosomiasis. This comprehensive genome sequence enabled researchers to map out ...
