International research team seeks to unravel flatworm regeneration
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 09:35
in Biology & Nature
Planarian flatworms are only a few millimeters up to a few centimeters in length, live in freshwater and are the object of intense research, because they possess the extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue with the help of their stem cells (neoblasts) and even grow an entirely new worm out of minute amputated body parts.