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 ...
In the animal kingdom, specific growth factors control body axis development. They are produced by a small group of cells at one end of the embryo to be distributed in a graded fashion toward the ...
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 ...