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Unlocking the 'chain of worms' - EurekAlert


An international team of scientists including&nbsp;B. Duygu &Ouml;zpolat&nbsp;at Washington University in St. Louis has published the first single-cell atlas for&nbsp;<em>Pristina leidyi&nbsp;</em>(Pristina), the water nymph worm, a segmented annelid with extraordinary regenerative abilities that has fascinated biologists for more than a century.

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