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Stem Cell-Powered Worm Doesn't Age, Can Grow a New Head

Posted April 27, 2010 2:15 PM

From Discover Magazine | rsslist:

For the tiny flatworm, regeneration of missing body parts is a piece of cake. Someone chopped its head off? No problem! It grows a brand new one in about seven days, complete with a spanking new brain with all the right circuits and connections. (As for the chopped-off head, it just grows a new body.)

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Re: Stem Cell-Powered Worm Doesn't Age, Can Grow a New Head

04/28/2010 1:22 PM

The Register reports that the discovery of the "smed-prep" gene unlocks the mechanisms by which the hard-to-kill Planarian flatworms grow new muscle, gut, and brain cells...

Even if you dowse them in salt? Do they survive in salt? Not so hard to kill, eh?
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