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McConnell's piece summarizes some experiments with tiny primitive creatures called planarians, or flatworms, that he has published in his own journal, The Worm Runner's Guide, and elsewhere. His work, which has been confirmed by only some of the researchers who have tried to duplicate his expermiments, suggests that memory storage is in some way related to RNA, the gigantic molecule which is also involved in cell reproduction. He exploited the remarkable regenerative powers of the planarian to demonstrate that both halves of a bisected worm will contract in the presence of light if the worm has been...

Author: By Stepiien Bello, | Title: The Harvard Review | 6/2/1965 | See Source »

...allow itself to be surpassed in such essential learning? In the vermicular vernacular, can we afford to burrow from the realities around us and transmogrify the liberal epistemology? O never never--the government is with us and the populace demands it: let us enter in the new planarian world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Worm Turners | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Regeneration in Planarian Eye." Mr. E. A. Boyden. "Recent Work in Sex Inheritance and Inheritance of Color." Professor Castle and Mr. Little. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 3/11/1909 | See Source »

...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Regeneration in Planarian Eye." Mr. E. A. Boyden. "Recent Work in Sex Inheritance and Inheritance of Color." Professor Castle and Mr. Little. Zoological Laboratory. 4th floor, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 3/6/1909 | See Source »

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