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 ...

(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 ...

A hydra is a tiny animal, roughly half an inch in length. Although biologists have known about them for a long time, they were uncertain how these miniscule creatures open their mouths. Now, ...

Regeneration is widely distributed among the various phyla that compose the animal kingdom, including vertebrates. Limitations in the ability to interrogate this attribute at the molecular level have ...