In their latest study, published in PLOS Genetics, first author staff scientist M. Lucila Scimone, Reddien, and colleagues describe how planarians restore large portions of their nervous system ...

Regeneration of tissues and organs is one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology. Whitehead Member Peter W. Reddien works to shed light on that mystery through research on the planarian Schmidtea ...

The Chinese space station will soon welcome a new life form - planaria -known for their regenerative abilities, for ...