{"id":202711,"date":"2024-12-29T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/this-worm-can-regrow-its-body-by-reversing-to-a-stem-cell-like-state"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:34:09","slug":"this-worm-can-regrow-its-body-by-reversing-to-a-stem-cell-like-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/this-worm-can-regrow-its-body-by-reversing-to-a-stem-cell-like-state","title":{"rendered":"This Worm Can Regrow Its Body by Reversing to a Stem Cell-Like State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-worm-can-regrow-its-body-by-reversing-to-a-stem-cell-like-state3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re way behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-discover-axolotl-genes-involved-in-their-amazing-limb-regeneration\">several species<\/a> when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these other animals so we can learn from them \u2013 including, in a new study, the marine worm <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platynereis_dumerilii\"><em>Platynereis dumerilii<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These worms are experts in regeneration \u2013 they can survive losing a large chunk of their bodies \u2013 and now we have a better idea of how they\u2019re doing it: specialized cells near a wound are reverting to their original stem cell-like form, before adapting again to replace lost tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Regeneration in most species is handled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a>, which develop into whatever type of cells are needed. However, when the end segment of <em>Platynereis<\/em> is removed, multiple populations of other cells are recruited to swiftly restore the missing body section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these other animals so we can learn from them \u2013 including, in a new study, the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii. These worms are experts in regeneration \u2013 they can survive losing a large chunk of their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}