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Researchers at the University of Utah and the Forsyth Institute at Harvard report that planaria contain a gene highly similar to the human gene PTEN, one of the most frequently mutated genes in human cancer. Disruption of PTEN pathways in planaria resulted in abnormal growths, drastic changes in body shape, and, eventually, death.

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