Stem cells, which drive regeneration, require a microenvironment in tissue called a niche, but not so much in this ...

When a planarian flatworm loses its head, it simply grows another. The head, if left alone, can grow a body to match. In a ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...