Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells Power Planarian Regeneration
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 13:50
in Biology & Nature
Whitehead Institute researchers have found that the planarian flatworm regenerates missing tissues using pluripotent adult stem cells. Until now, scientists could not determine if the dividing cells in planarians are a mix of specialized stem cells that regenerates specific tissues, or if individual neoblasts are pluripotent and able to regenerate all tissues.