image: A picture of a planaria flatworm under a microscope that has been treated with a known skin irritant mixed with a fluorescent dye view more Credit: University of Reading, 2020 ...

Nelson Hall wants you to know that the googly-eyed flatworm he just sliced into four pieces is going to be OK. In fact, it’s going to be great. Three of the flatworm’s four pieces have started to ...

Planarian toxicity fluorescent assay: A rapid and cheap pre-screening tool for potential skin irritants. Toxicology in Vitro, 2020; 105004 DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.105004 ...

The microscope then either begins its mail-order journey to the next lab, or back to the Morgridge lab if a tune-up is needed -- all at no cost to users. The first focus will be on sharing with ...

If you dissect a planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)—a flatworm about half an inch long—into 279 tiny fragments, each fragment can regrow into an entire animal. New research from the lab of ...

Planarians were exposed for 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 min to UV radiation then cut transversely. All but the planaria exposed for 5 min and the controls were dead by the second day of observation. In the ...