An international team of scientists have sequenced the genome of Hydra, a freshwater polyp that's been a staple of biological research for 300 years. Skip to main content.

A duo from Columbia University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has begun to crack the neural code behind Hydra's simplest behavior, called contraction bursts. The team found that the ...

US Army Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, Marine Biological Laboratory DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.012 ...

In ancient Greek myth, the Hydra was a multi-headed monster that grew two more heads for every one that it lost. As it turns out, the real-life animal named after this mythical beast may be even ...

Studying animal tissue such as those of Hydra – an animal full of active stem cells during all its life – may deliver valuable insight into stem cell ageing as such. „Surprisingly, our search for the ...

The Greek hero Heracles fought a monster called the Hydra, which grew two new heads for each one he lopped off. Heracles was lucky he wasn’t fighting something with the regenerative ability of the ...

Hydra, specifically Hydra vulgaris, are unassuming creatures. At their largest, the freshwater cnidarians (relatives of jellyfish) are just about a centimeter long. Their miniscule bodies are ...

Marine Biological Laboratory. "Team rewires a behavioral circuit in the worm using hydra parts." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 September 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 09 ...

Everything dies, right? Wrong, actually. According to NPR reporters Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole, an organism called the hydra has achieved biological immortality in a lab setting. The extremely ...

Yet he didn’t find any. “The results provide no evidence for aging in hydra… Hydra may have indeed escaped senescence and may be potentially immortal,” he conceded in the resulting 1998 study.