An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of Hydra, a freshwater polyp that's been a staple of biological research for 300 years. UC Irvine researchers have played a leading role ...

The freshwater Hydra is able to regenerate any part of its body to rebuild an entire individual. The small polyp has a development organizer center located at the head level, and another located in ...

The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra is a remarkable creature. It does not show any signs of aging and appears to be immortal. Researchers from Kiel University have examined this phenomenon and uncovered ...

Like the ocean, it seems that many bodies of freshwater are dark and full of terrors. For example hydra, an invertebrate freshwater creature that measures less than an inch long, is bizarre with the ...

Researchers pinpointed the genetic machinery behind some of these tiny creatures’ amazing powers of regeneration. By Sam Jones In rivers and streams across the globe lives a tube-shaped carnivore. It ...

Researchers at Rice University and the University of California, Davis, identified redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra by altering and then capturing them in microfluidic ...

People dreading the passing of their dog or cat, could find that an unusual marine creature might prove the perfect pet. Scientists claim a certain kind of a freshwater polyp is ‘effectively immortal’ ...

CLAREMONT >> They’re tiny, up to a centimeter long at most. They’re relatively primitive animals with few organs comparable to those of humans. And under ideal conditions, the tiny creatures known as ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In ancient Greek myth, the Hydra was a multi-headed monster that grew two more heads for every one that it lost. As it turns out, the real-life animal named after this mythical beast may be even more ...

Hydra is able to regenerate any part of its body to rebuild an entire individual. The head organizer performs two opposite activities, one activating, which causes the head to differentiate, and the ...