Dec. 8 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Irvine on Wednesday revealed how Hydras, a group of small aquatic animals, can regenerate their own heads. The animals, which are known to ...

Researchers identify redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra. The work is a step toward modeling how internal states and external stimuli shape the behavior of an organism with a ...

Our bodies do a decent enough job of repairing themselves, able to patch up wounds, fight off infections and even heal broken bones. But that only applies up to a certain point – lose a limb, for ...

Using the freshwater polyp Hydra as a model organism, researchers have investigated how the simple nervous system of these animals interacts with the microbiome. They were able to demonstrate, for the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI biologists' groundbreaking work with the freshwater polyp hydra helped put a young campus on the map. When an international team led by UC Irvine scientists sequenced the hydra ...

A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled by the so-called hippo signaling pathway, a molecular biological process that, among other ...