An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of Hydra, a freshwater polyp that's been a staple of biological research for 300 years. UC Irvine researchers have played a leading role ...

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 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 ...

A team of researchers has discovered that the primitive hydra is useful in research to combat Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease. In the March 14 online version of Nature, University of ...

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 ...

The tiny freshwater hydra is essentially an immortal creature. It can regenerate an entirely new animal from any fragment of its body with just a few thousands of cells. It also does this without ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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’ ...

Humans, animals, plants: all multicellular organisms are made up of specialized cells called differentiated cells. Thus, the cells that make up the epidermis do not have the same identity - nor the ...

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 ...