Scooped from a fountain in Spain, a colony of planarians help scientists unravel the rules of regeneration.
Category: Regenerative Biology
‘Listen to what the flies tell us’
The Drummond-Barbosa Lab looks to the tiny fruit fly to understand big complex questions about the relationship between stem cell development and changes in diet, metabolism, and the environment.
Faculty and staff explore state’s rivers, culture and more in Wisconsin Idea Seminar
he seminar is an annual five-day journey through Wisconsin that offers faculty and staff the opportunity to learn firsthand about the social and cultural contexts that shape the lives of many of our Wisconsin students, and to see what the Wisconsin Idea looks like when it is rooted in local communities and shaped by local priorities.
Following the ‘BATT Signal’: A new signaling pathway controlling planarian germ cells
Morgridge scientists have discovered a surprising new way that the model organism planaria initiates sexual development.
Heart regeneration pioneer to join UW–Madison, Morgridge Institute
Kenneth Poss explores the mysteries of how some species can regenerate virtually any damaged tissue in their body — and what that could mean for repairing damaged human hearts.