New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Researchers led by Maike Sander, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas.

A 75-person team at Seattle's Allen Institute is embarking on a 10-year project called CellScapes to devise a mathematical ...

In this study, we used the regenerative model planarian organism Schmidtea mediterranea to demonstrate ... Our study reveals the essential role of PABP2 in regulating genes that mediate stem cell ...

A blood stem cell cannot make liver or heart cells. The neoblasts of adult planarians have no such restrictions. They are pieces of unfettered possibility, capable of producing any tissue or organ.

This would result in two different planarians within a couple of weeks. A new study at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research gives answers to these questions. Scientists conducted the study on ...

Planarians are able to stand long periods of starvation by maintaining adult stem cell pools and regenerative capacity. The molecular pathways that are needed for the maintenance of regeneration ...

In order to regenerate tissues successfully, stem cells must detect injuries and restore missing cell types through largely unknown mechanisms. Planarian flatworms have an extensive stem cell ...

Comprehensive assessment of matrisome genes identified collagen IV as one of the many extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins regulating the stem cell pool in planarian tissue homeostasis and regeneration ...

Slow‐cycling RNA low neoblasts grow and enter the cell cycle following amputation in a TOR‐dependent manner. These findings suggest that planarians use a slow‐cycling adult stem cell strategy in their ...

The study was done in planarians, which are tiny worms used as model organisms to study regeneration because of their ability to recover from any injury using stem cells. "Planarian stem cells, even ...