Mechanical scaffolding helps a hydra regenerate | Science News
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Channel: Science News · 2017 · Science & Technology
Regenerating pond animals called hydra inherit structural patterns from their original forms, researchers find. When researchers anchored rings of hydra tissue to a wire (right), they found that the added mechanical stability made hydra grow normally along one body axis, and thus grow one head. Without this stability, the actin scaffolding was more disrupted and animals grew two heads (left). Read more: http://ow.ly/K34e308P9w2 Video credit: A. Livshits et al/Cell Reports 2017
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