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Water-dwelling hydras may use the structural memory in their cytoskeletons to regenerate after being torn apart.
Feb 7, 2017
LIVSHITS & SHANI-ZEBIBET ET AL.
(See A. Livshits et al., “Structural Inheritance of the Actin Cytoskeletal Organization Determines the Body Axis in Regenerating Hydra,” Cell Reports doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.036, 2017)
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