Realizing its mistake, Hydra tried to make amends and protect the kingdom with its strength, lawyers and cybersecurity insurance, but it was not enough, and it was too late.

Dr. Mortazavi was also surprised to find that gene expression timing varied so much between head regeneration and budding. “Clearly there’s more than one way to make a head,” he said.

In April 2014, when Winter Soldier came out, the denizens of the internet made fun of the scene with the meme. Any moment where whispering was observed became a “Hail Hydra” moment.

Near their mouthparts, hydra have a cluster of 50 to 300 cells called the head organizer; as its name implies, it directs the development of the head. If a hydra is beheaded, a new organizer can ...

An evolutionarily-conserved Wnt3/β-catenin/Sp5 feedback loop restricts head organizer activity in Hydra. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08242-2 ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, maps out for the first time how Hydra, which are a group of small aquatic animals, can regenerate their own heads ...

Once established, governmental organizations never get the ax. They don't even die in their sleep. Like the Hydra, they grow more heads, claim new purposes for themselves and flourish. As Claudia ...