Cut off any part of this worm's body and it will regrow. This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of ...

Adult pluripotent stem cells, called neoblasts, are considered a defining feature of all flatworms. This manuscript shows that canonical neoblasts are absent in an early branching flatworm lineage ...

Reptiles have been spotted on imported plants, but what we should really worry about, according to scientists, are the ...

About 200,000 people die each year from schistosomiasis, sometimes known as snail fever, which is caused by parasitic flatworms called flukes that live inside freshwater snails.