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 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 ...

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 ...