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The world's only immortal animal

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The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.

Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).

The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders, which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.

Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bl...al-animal.html

good thing the Nazi's didn't learn of this in the 30's or we'd be sprechen sie deutsch

looks like the jelly gonna invade us in 2012!!!!

this is old news isn't it?
i remember learning about this jellyfish or at least transdifferentiation in school

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Originally Posted by mx703 (Post 6926021)

this is old news isn't it?
i remember learning about this jellyfish or at least transdifferentiation in school

Something you should've learned in high school

If the jellyfish has its own individual uniqueness then it may not be too long before we can become immortal!

Mmm... let's harvest them and eat them!!!! They can't regenerate once they're cut up and covered in sesame seeds :D

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/88...0d6018bc83.jpg

how many cycles between adult stage to polyp?

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Originally Posted by Spectre_Cdn (Post 6926095)

Mmm... let's harvest them and eat them!!!! They can't regenerate once they're cut up and covered in sesame seeds :D

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/88...0d6018bc83.jpg

damn you meng.. now i have to go to the chinese resturants to eat it now..

why you gotta tempt me :cry:

^ Like my favourite seafood after Lobster.
I drink vingear with that stuff. !

jellyfish is cursed, i knew it!

:haha:

jellyfish may be able to regrow itself, but it can't survive a nuclear attack like cockroaches can.

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Originally Posted by threezero (Post 6926948)

jellyfish may be able to regrow itself, but it can't survive a nuclear attack like cockroaches can.

Cockroach only have a lifespan of a year or 2 at most whereas this particular jellyfish lives forever in the deep sea where fallouts have no effect.

thats pretty cool. I vaguely remember learning about this in highschool. Next they need to find out how to do this for a human.

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Originally Posted by FerrariEnzo (Post 6926152)

damn you meng.. now i have to go to the chinese resturants to eat it now..

why you gotta tempt me :cry:

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Originally Posted by fishing666 (Post 6926065)

If the jellyfish has its own individual uniqueness then it may not be too long before we can become immortal!

http://encefalus.com/wp-content/uplo...highlander.jpg