Tapeworms might not be the cutest or cuddliest of creatures cooked up by Mother Nature, but what they lack in charm, they more than make up for with a few very special abilities. You see, tapeworms have the incredible power to shed and then regrow huge lengths of their own bodies, and it’s an ability that scientists haven’t been able to fully explain.
Now, new research published in eLife reveals the very special cells that give tapeworms the capacity to generate new bodies. To figure it out, scientists led by Tania Rozario of the University of Wisconsin-Madison had to chop some of the parasites up.
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Scientists sliced up a bunch of tapeworms to figure out how they regrow their bodies originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 22:05:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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