Many planaria species regenerate in wondrous ways -- namely, when quartered they reconstruct themselves from the pieces. Sliced through the "waist," they regenerate the missing tail or head; bisected ...

An image of a planaria, a flatworm that can regenerate its entire body, under a fluorescent microscope. WVU research, led by biologist Chris Arnold, is looking at genes that lay the framework for ...

Tests for skin treatments could be screened using flatworms rather than other animals such as rabbits, according to new research. A team at the University of Reading and Newcastle University have ...