A tiny freshwater polyp called the hydra has a rather neat trick: It can’t die. These polyps are able to accomplish this remarkable feat of apparent immorality by reproducing through budding rather ...

A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled by the so-called hippo signaling pathway, a molecular biological process that, among other ...

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 ...

Italian researchers used a simple semiconducting organic molecule to modulate the neural activity in a fresh-water polyp to control a specific behaviour. When added to water in a tank the compound, ...

A Hydra with a faulty Hippo pathway, leading to deformed tentacles. Credit: Maria Brooun A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled ...

(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 ...

Left, a hydra stained in blue where the light-sensitive opsin gene is expressed. Right, two tentacle bulbs showing the arrangement of neurons and stinging cells (red), muscle fibers (green) and cell ...

In modern life sciences, a paradigm shift is becoming increasingly evident: life forms are no longer considered to be self-contained units, but instead highly-complex and functionally-interdependent ...