Expression of Concern: MicroRNA-96-5p promotes proliferation, invasion and EMT of oral carcinoma cells by directly targeting FOXF2

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In their Research Article, Orel Benita and colleagues obtain the first recording of well-defined extracellular multiunit activity from the freshwater planarian brain by a straight-forward technique. These traits combined with their exceptional regeneration capabilities, allow for neurobiological experiments not possible in any other model organism such as an electrophysiological recording from planaria with two heads that control a shared body.

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