The freshwater Hydra is able to regenerate any part of its body to rebuild an entire individual. The small polyp has a development organizer center located at the head level, and another located in ...

Researchers identify redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra. The work is a step toward modeling how internal states and external stimuli shape the behavior of an organism with a ...

Researchers pinpointed the genetic machinery behind some of these tiny creatures’ amazing powers of regeneration. By Sam Jones In rivers and streams across the globe lives a tube-shaped carnivore. It ...

Hydra is able to regenerate any part of its body to rebuild an entire individual. The head organizer performs two opposite activities, one activating, which causes the head to differentiate, and the ...

Researchers at Rice University and the University of California, Davis, identified redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra by altering and then capturing them in microfluidic ...

The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra is a remarkable creature. It does not show any signs of aging and appears to be immortal. Researchers from Kiel University have examined this phenomenon and uncovered ...

Like the ocean, it seems that many bodies of freshwater are dark and full of terrors. For example hydra, an invertebrate freshwater creature that measures less than an inch long, is bizarre with the ...

WHEN Hercules chopped the head off the Hydra, the freshwater snake-monster of Greek mythology, two heads grew back in its place. Now the modern freshwater Hydra, a simple animal related to jellyfish ...

In ancient Greek myth, the Hydra was a multi-headed monster that grew two more heads for every one that it lost. As it turns out, the real-life animal named after this mythical beast may be even more ...

CLAREMONT >> They’re tiny, up to a centimeter long at most. They’re relatively primitive animals with few organs comparable to those of humans. And under ideal conditions, the tiny creatures known as ...

People dreading the passing of their dog or cat, could find that an unusual marine creature might prove the perfect pet. Scientists claim a certain kind of a freshwater polyp is ‘effectively immortal’ ...