The Immortal Jellyfish Cheats Death by Reverting to a Polyp When Injured or Stressed
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The living water Turritopsis dohrnii Getty Images The tiny and translucent living water Turritopsis dohrnii is surprisingly difficult to kill. The marine biologist Maria Miglietta, of the A&M University of Texas in Galveston, United States, cut, boiled, left hungry, overloaded their tanks with salt and threw them in fresh water. But the sophisticated creatures seem to challenge death permanently. When under pressure, they interrupt their way and…
Immortal living water is able to restart its life cycle, becoming young again. Scientists are unlocking their cell secrets to find ways to allow the rejuvenation of human cells.
A tiny, nearly transparent jellyfish has an ability that seems to defy one of life's most basic rules, it can turn its biological cycle backwards and become new again. Turritopsis dohrnii, known as the “immortal jellyfish”, is at the center of scientific investigations attempting to decipher the cellular and genetic mechanisms [...] The article The jellyfish that refuses to age gives new evidence on cell regeneration first appeared in the Free P…
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