Hydra research was first documented in Abraham Trembley's 1744 book, Memoirs Concerning the Natural History of a Type of Freshwater Polyp with Arms Shaped Like Horns. For more than 200 years, anyone ...

Principles of self-organisation are presented and are applied to the fields of the Web, which has developed its form from the bottom up; e-science, in which a grid of intelligent components interacted ...

Whether and how tumors can develop in the freshwater polyp hydra, and how they influence the fitness of the animals? Weaknesses: Concept of germline tumors. The conceptual foundation of their ...

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Figure 1.Population dynamics (A) and final population size (B) of field-collected hydra polyps cultured at 8°C and 12°C in normal lake water, autoclaved lake water or hydra medium. All treatment ...

The freshwater polyp Hydra is a popular biological model system; however, we still do not understand one of its most salient behaviors, the generation of spontaneous body wall contractions. Here, by ...

The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is ...

The Immortal Polyp. The Hydra is a simply built animal, which is considered practically immortal. It permanently renews its tissue, can completely replace entire parts of the body, and form an entire ...

The Hippo and the Hydra 15.07.2022. A new study describes the development of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. It is controlled by the so-called Hippo signaling pathway, which, ...

image: A Hydra with a faulty Hippo pathway, leading to deformed tentacles view more . Credit: Maria Brooun. A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra.