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 Cypress Swap Meet isn’t just shopping – it’s an experience, a community, and a California tradition that reminds us that sometimes the best finds come not from clicking “add to cart,” but from a ...

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

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

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 ...

Injecting a fatty acid that is used to make very long fat molecules into the eyes of elderly mice improved their vision for up to a month, indicating that the natural compound could potentially be ...

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Activists in the summer capital are developing a network of human rights cities across the country, beginning with northern Luzon, where civil rights protections and ...

“I even believe that in the course of countless ages the two human eyes will come closer and closer together, the bridge of the nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ‘ man’s ...

Since 2019, I have been teaching Sociology to law students in Pune, and over the past six years, I have witnessed a quiet yet profound change. Earlier, classrooms, corridors, and canteens would echo ...

Human eyes convey a remarkable variety of complex social and emotional information. However, it is unknown which physical eye features convey mental states and how that came about. In the current ...