Worms fight so dirty. #Planarian

Aquatic models including but not limited to:
#Zebrafish #Gar #Killifish #Medaka #Stickleback #Xiphophorus #Lamprey #Xenopus #Cephalopod #Squid #Hydra #Nematostella #Tunicate #SeaUrchin #Planarian #Ctenophore #Ciona #Echinoderm #Aiptasia #Coral

New #research from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab reveals how #planarian cells coordinate #regeneration across the body using extracellular vesicles to deliver gene-silencing RNAs. 🪱 Published in Science Advances.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4bYJ1tN

Support cells fuel flatworm regeneration Stowers scientists discover how metabolically specialized support cells orchestrate whole-body regeneration, reshaping our understanding of tissue repair…

🪱 New #research from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social, reveals that whole-body #regeneration in #planarian flatworms depends not only on stem cells, but on metabolically specialized support cells that fuel the process.

🔗Read more: www.stowers.org/news/support...

Some sort of #planarian? Just guesswork, to be honest. Cute, whatever it is!

Flatworm Stem Cells Regenerate Through Contactless Communication Stem cells in regenerating planarians don’t need their closest neighbors, overturning researchers’ understanding of the worms’ regenerative superpowers.

New findings from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab are changing what we know about #regeneration. 🪱 Their latest study, featured in The Scientist, shows #planarian stem cells rebuild tissue through long-distance communication—not direct contact. #SciSky #ResearchSky

Read here⬇️ bit.ly/4nNFzFa

(1/2)New #research from the @planaria1.bsky.social Lab, published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social & led by @frederickmann.bsky.social + @blairbenhampyle.bsky.social, shows #planarian stem cells don’t follow nearby cues—they respond to long-range signals. 🪱 #RegenerativeMedicine

More: bit.ly/47r5hcL

A gacha machine (capsule toy) that gets you a planarian pendant.

It's been a while since I last posted a weird gacha, so... here is one.

Are you interested in a planarian pendant? Because I have exactly what you need!

#Japan #Gacha #Gashapon #Planarian

A flatworm of the Planarian class. Probably a Dugesia species. This is a darkfield photo, where the subject (the flatworm) is illuminated but the background is dark. The head is basically triangle shape, and its eyespots near the base of the head make the flatworm look cross-eyed. The worm's digestive system is refracting more light, so is readily visible as a branching structure behind the head.

Look at this wonderful little flatworm! #Planarian #flatworm

Federico Brown from @uspoficial.bsky.social Developmental changes underlying sensory system evolution in dark #PASEDB2025 #planarian #sensory #evodevo ‬

Dendrocoelopsis americana Dendrocoelopsis americana in May 2025 by Turner Brockman

Just lovely shot of Dendrocoelopsis americana #planarian #WormWednesday 🌿 #invertebrate www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Dmap1 regulates the expression of axial polarity markers in planarians

#DBfeature #Planarian

The DNA methyltransferase DMAP1 is required for tissue maintenance and planarian regeneration

by Salvador Rojas, Paul Barghouth, Néstor Oviedo et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A glossy black fat tubular Flatworm with a pair of longitudinal grey stripes on its back, and a pointed 'head end' that has tiny eye spots along its sides

A beautiful Parakontikia ventrolineata found in the garden, one of two species of Flatworm found this weekend.

#UKWildlife #Flatworm #Planarian #Platyhelminthes

One of my favorite guys #Planarian

#ERGAReads | Despite their importance as model species for studying #regeneration, high-quality, chromosome-scale #planarian genome assemblies have only recently been published.

This study brings interesting insights into planarian #genome evolution:
🔗 rdcu.be/d12FP

Call it a hustler
the greedy, #planarian
puffer fish bit of you
if life was about fishing
you’d throw it back
not reel it in, to gaze
at the clouds of
wall eyes, gasping
no, no, no, no
(yes, yes, yes)

#vss365

Mr. Lam, Claire’s biology professor, was dead on the ground. Her brain stalled out.

No more midterm. All those worms, #planarian, maricola, paludicola, terricola. No point studying now.

She heard a crunch in the dark classroom. Fear jolted Claire back to the present.

#microfiction
#horror
#vss365

I am not whole.
I am the sum of my parts–the ones I still have, and the ones stolen, alike.

#vss365 #planaria #planarias #planarian #planarians #poem #poems #writing #poetry #poet #poetic #freeverse #freeversepoem

It used to be
that sleep simply
arrived at
ease and untroubled,
restoring
factory settings, no matter
the poison and recklessness
of the day.

Then, at the
semi-
cent-
ennial,
my #planarian powers
deactivated.
Healing of wounds
inches along, missing
the spring.
#vss365

#vss365 #planarian
"Planarians are immortal!" declared Matty while he finished lining up his cars.
"Like Santa Claus?" his grandma asked, sitting down on babysitting duty.
Matty frowned deeply. "No, they regenerate. Like Wolverine. Like vampires and werewolves. But they are worms and real."

#vss365 #planarian
As I age, the animal inside me changes
Like me, my soul also changes

I put my inner dog down and pray for its deep rest
I embrace the parts that evolve and learn to live with the rest

My soul and body grow old, gray, and soft
The noble planarian now in me teaches me to be soft

Reincarnation is tricky. Unlike #planarian worms, when you cut our heads off we don't remember who we are. The worms are key. Everyone reincarnates. Not everyone has memory-preserving parasites. Now swallow these sanitized worm eggs, guaranteed to maybe be from a previous incarnation... #vss365

Tiny flat worm glides,
Cut in two, two worms arise!
A cruel magic trick.

🪱 🔪

#VSS365 #Planarian #DailyPrompt #Haiku #Poetry

I found out today that some creatures don't die
(assuming the website I read did not lie)
#Planarian worms can be sliced up or shredded,
dismembered, dissected, ground down, or beheaded,
and each separate part will regrow and live on,
so I guess worms will reign when all others are gone.

#vss365

You can cut me out
planarian in your gut
I will grow right back

#haiku #poetry #vss365 #planarian this one was kinda hard actually

#vss365 #Planarian

Planaria are patient
Planaria are silent
Planaria are independent
Planaria can take a cut and split into two and grow whole ahain and multiply.

I want to be planarian, she said at last, but instead, I'm atomic ... you cut me and I explode and burn everything around me to ash.

“I’m like Trigger’s old broom. I just keep going on and on. Yes I may have had seventeen new heads and fourteen new bodies but I’m still the same old #planarian I always was. And you never knew that I could talk did you?”
#vss365