A tiny freshwater polyp called the hydra has a rather neat trick: It can’t die. These polyps are able to accomplish this remarkable feat of apparent immorality by reproducing through budding rather ...

A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. This is controlled by the so-called hippo signaling pathway, a molecular biological process that, among ...

A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled by the so-called hippo signaling pathway, a molecular biological process that, among other ...

In the animal kingdom, specific growth factors control body axis development. They are produced by a small group of cells at one end of the embryo to be distributed in a graded fashion toward the ...

Left, a hydra stained in blue where the light-sensitive opsin gene is expressed. Right, two tentacle bulbs showing the arrangement of neurons and stinging cells (red), muscle fibers (green) and cell ...

The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI biologists' groundbreaking work with the freshwater polyp hydra helped put a young campus on the map. When an international team led by UC Irvine scientists sequenced the hydra ...

Newts grow new legs, Hydra new heads. These remarkable creatures may hold clues for researchers developing human cellular therapies. But the connections are only now starting to be made. Helen Pearson ...

Italian researchers used a simple semiconducting organic molecule to modulate the neural activity in a fresh-water polyp to control a specific behaviour. When added to water in a tank the compound, ...

Microbes are everywhere, even inside of our bodies. The gut microbiome has been shown to have a powerful influence on biology, and can even affect the brain. Scientists have been learning more about ...