⁣The freshwater Hydra is endowed with an extraordinary power of regeneration, discovered by the Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley more than 250 years ago. The group of Brigitte Galliot, professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the Faculty of Science of UNIGE, has studied the stem cells functioning and cellular plasticity of the polyp: «its nervous system regulates in particular contraction bursts, feeding behavior, moving or swimming. If the stem cells responsible for its renewal are depleted, the Hydra can still develop, even when all its neurons have disappeared. We wanted to understand how this is possible."


****************links to the studys on transgenic hydra medicine.***********



https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25285460/



https://phys.org/news/2015-11-hydra-genetic.html



https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31160787/