Flatworms have the ability to regenerate seemingly forever. Could they hold the key to human immortality?
Do Flatworms hold the Keys to Immortality?
Here’s more on flatworms and immortality from The Telegraph:
Experts from Nottingham University managed to create a colony of more than 20,000 flatworms from one original by chopping it into pieces and observing each section grow into a new complete worm…
“Our data satisfy one of the predictions about what it would take for an animal to be potentially immortal,” Aziz Aboobaker, who led the research. “The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”…
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