Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

New Delhi: Stanford University scientists were studying a species of flatworm when they found that some of its cells seemed to rapidly disappear under the microscope, leaving a wake of dead cells.

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy ...

Life-forms with no brain are capable of some astounding things. It might sound like sci-fi nightmare fuel, but some bacteria can wage kamikaze chemical warfare. Pathogenic bacteria make us sick by ...