What Can Headless Flatworms Teach Us About Vision? (6 of 9) (VIDEO)

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3-D view of planarian brain stained with a synaptic marker. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 28, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Shettigar at Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bangalore, India, and colleagues was titled, 'Hierarchies in light sensing and dynamic interactions between ocular and extraocular sensory networks in a flatworm.'

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[Credit: Akash Gulyani Lab, inStem, Bangalore, India]

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