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Scientists Discover New Clues To Regeneration: How Flatworms Regrow Heads

Posted by samzenpus on from the two-heads-are-better-than-none dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Regeneration is one of the most useful skills that an organism can possess. Lizards can regrow their tails and starfish can regrow and entire part of themselves if they're cut to pieces. Yet scientists have long wondered why some creatures possess this ability while others don't. That's why they decided to examine the process of regeneration, looking at the masters of this particular adaptation: flatworms."

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  1. Paywall ugh by earlzdotnet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Article is paywalled. I can get it on "readcube" for either $5 or $10. Or I can get it in a sane format (PDF) for $32. ORRR I can pay a lowly $200 to "subscribe to Nature" for some amount of time. And companies wonder why people pirate their material

  2. Re:which is the "real" starfish by camperdave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if any of the regenerated worms maintain the learned behavior.

    Yes, they can.

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