From a single adult cell, flatworm crafts a new body
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 13:21
in Biology & Nature
A single adult cell from one of the most impressive masters of regeneration in the animal kingdom the planarian is all it takes to build a completely functional new worm, researchers have learned. The study provides the first hard evidence that adult planarians harbor pluripotent stem cells cells capable of producing the diverse range of tissue types necessary to build a complete animal.