The IMMORTAL Jellyfish?

stpaddy99

http://bsix12.com/the-immortal-jellyfish/

First Ive heard of it.............it seems they have the potential to keep regenerating ad infinitum using a process called transdifferentiation? Incredible?
Does anyone know more and what can we humans take from this remarkable phenomenon?

Turtwig

It's not immortal. Chuck it into an oven and see what happens!
Neotenous maybe?

stpaddy99

surprised this didn't interest anyone?

Capt'n Midnight

stpaddy99 wrote: »

Does anyone know more and what can we humans take from this remarkable phenomenon?

Well, let's pass this over to the Daily Fail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523249/Did-humans-descend-JELLYFISH.html

It’s long been thought we evolved from sea sponges, but new genetic research suggests that jellyfish-style creatures may have kicked off the human race.
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More than half a billion years ago a single line of species separated from all other animals and scientists traditionally believed this originated with sea sponges.

It's so far back that there wouldn't be much in common. The ability of lizards or amphibians to regenerate limbs or replace teeth would be a lot closer. The ability of some baboons to eat grass is a mere blink of an eye in comparison.

Jellyfish have far fewer cell types than we do and a very different immune system. Cancer is just uncontrolled cell division and we've had 500 million years of putting the brakes on that, so it's unlikely we'd be able to turn it on easily.

Miggle Kop

What about salamanders?

The Pheasant2

Lobsters are also immortal technically speaking afaik