🪱 How flatworms rebuild themselves
Using spatial transcriptomics, scientists found planarian stem cells rely on signals from nearby gut cells (not fixed niches) to drive powerful regeneration.
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Mann et al. reveal that stem cells in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea reside
in a diverse, broadly distributed stem cell niche and lack stable contacts with neighboring
differentiated cells. Thes...
