Projektnummer

0063744

Zusammenfassung

Cells are the fundamental units of life, but how they organize into organisms as "societies of cells" remains a fundamental gap in our knowledge. Individuals in societies can cooperate or compete with one another, and groups of cells are no different. How are potential conflicts between cells resolved to produce functioning, healthy organisms? In this study, the research team makes use of an extraordinary organism - the planarian worm - to answer this question. Planarians are unusual in that they have a very large numbers of stem cells that can develop into any kind of tissue. This mea...