BEIJING -- China's space station is set to introduce a novel participant in its space science experiments -- the planarian, a creature renowned for its extraordinary regenerative capabilities, China ...

BEIJING -- China's space station is set to introduce a novel participant in its space science experiments -- the planarian ... of the widely used experimental animal models in biological research.

Planarians, flatworms with an evolutionary history spanning over 520 million years, are one of the widely used experimental animal models ... space-induced effects on planarian regeneration ...

Here they show that the mitochondrial fusion-fission equilibrium can determine the pluripotency of planarian stem cells ... with some animals showing robust whole-animal regeneration after amputation.

mediterranea, this could not be reproduced. So, these results demonstrate that small planarian fragments do make errors during regeneration, giving rise to double-headed animals, which supports the ...

Their analysis pipeline permits them to quantify cell types in relatively large numbers of whole animal samples. The authors provide convincing data on changes in total neurons and neuronal sub-types ...