11.29.2012

Huffington Post Popular News: 'Immortal Jellyfish' Lives Forever By Continually Reverting To First Stage Of Life (VIDEO)

If scientists are correct, jellyfish may hold the key to immortality.


That's the premise of a New York Times Magazine article that examines a species of jellyfish (appropriately) nicknamed the "immortal jellyfish."


Known officially as Turritopsis nutricula (and sometimes as Turritopsis dohrnii), the minute creature has the ability to transform its cells back into a youthful state. As National Geographic puts it, the jellyfish transforms "into a blob-like cyst" that grows into a polyp colony -- the first stage of life.




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