Researchers feed tiny pills of RNA to planarians to identify genes essential for regeneration
...an biology that are barely accessible today." The planarians used in these studies, also called flatworms, live...in mice. This means researchers may be able to use planarians to learn about human diseases that can't be studied in other animal models. Another 35 of the silen...Scientists identify gene involved in stem cell self-renewal in planaria
...is remarkable feat; recent work sheds light on how planarians maintain these stem cells throughout their lives. ...binding proteins ?produced by a gene found in both planarians and humans ?plays a vital role in maintaining the stem cell population in the planarian Schmidtea me...Study of planarians offers insight into germ cell development
...ark and his colleagues at the U. of I. report that planarians share some important characteristics with mammals ...he earliest stages of their embryonic development, planarians do not generally express nanos or produce germ cells until several days after hatching. This delayed...