the annelid worm is very different from another group of worms studied for its remarkable regenerative capacities: flatworms or planarians. Planarians possess pluripotent stem cells solely responsible ...

Hammerhead flatworms are, you guessed it, flat in appearance. The group of worms is usually referred to as the broadhead planarians and contains more than 200 different species, experts said.

Splitting worms Because holobiont is a relatively new ... differentiates them from other animals that regenerate, like planarian flatworms and axolotls. When these acoels reproduce asexually ...

Here they show that the mitochondrial fusion-fission equilibrium can determine the pluripotency of planarian stem cells ... after amputation in an annelid worm, and reveal unexpected parallels ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...