As the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y20 carrier rocket stand ready at the launch site on ...

This mission marks the first time that space regeneration experiments with flatworms will be conducted in mainland China, opening new avenues for understanding biological processes in space. Flatworms ...

As China's first space experiment involving planarians, the Shenzhou-20 mission will study the effects of space on planarian regeneration using head, middle and tail segments, with potential ...

Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and partnering institutions have discovered that Schmidtea polychroa, a flatworm ...

China is all set to launch its Shen­zhou XX mission to make a crew shift onboard the nation's Tiangong space station, ...

Flatworms in orbit The Shenzhou XX mission ... address space-based health issues such as in-orbit injuries. Different planarian segments will be studied as they initiate regeneration in orbit ...

Naked mole rat. Image by BFS Man from Webster, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Aging—a universal biological ...

Black planarian flatworm crawling across the dead leaf of an aquatic plant. Image by EWTC via Depositphotos. Planarian worms possess extraordinary regenerative capabilities, able to regrow any part of ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed ...

For the first time, they will also bring planarians aboard -- aquatic flatworms known for their regenerative abilities. "The results could help address problems related to injuries sustained in ...