The humble planarian flatworm can regrow its brain. Here’s how this tiny animal will have you rethinking everything you ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

Discover how axolotls and flatworms coordinate regeneration through body-wide signals, revealing a complex healing process.

New research finds a tiny freshwater parasite known to cause health problems in humans defends its colonies with a class of soldiers that cannot reproduce. The discovery vaults this species of ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has found that stem cells in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea ...

Their growing presence came amid a series of wet weather events, including historic river flooding in May and Hurricane Beryl in July Houston residents are bracing for invasive and toxic hammerhead ...

A rainy summer across Southeast Texas has unearthed a legion of toxic "snake-like" worms that can grow more than a foot long and regenerate when cut in half. Houston and the surrounding regions have ...

Injuries are a part of life. When humans get hurt, our wounds heal, but scars remain and lost body parts never return. In the ...

You probably already know that North Carolina has lots of snakes. So you might not give a long, skinny thing slithering along the ground a second thought. “Yep,” you’d say to yourself, “just another ...

Image caption: The parasitic flatworm Haplorchis pumilio produces non-reproductive soldiers (left) which have much larger mouths than their reproductively capable colony-mates (center). The soldiers ...