He moves willingly between old age and youth.. How will man benefit from the "immortal" jellyfish?
A team from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo in Spain studied one of the rare, and only, creatures on this planet that came close to being scientifically classified as "immortal".
And the "immortal" jellyfish, according to scientists' description, known as Turritopsis Dohrnii, has the ability to transform from adult life, back to larval stages as it pleases, and although it is not completely indestructible, it retains the ability to reverse aging to youth and in Reality lives as long as it wants.
The study is published as "Comparative Genomics of Creatured, Deadly, and Immortal Organisms Uncovers New Keys Behind Regeneration" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists took the "immortal" jellyfish and compared it to the exact jellyfish to summarize the results of a very long study, which may benefit humanity, and they sequenced the genome and were able to isolate the exact part of the DNA that the jellyfish - also known as metazoan - uses to transform itself back into a copy Tiny of itself, it multiplies in a way that reveals its potential for biological immortality and challenges our understanding of ageing.
The study explains that it "identified variants and expansions in genes associated with transcription, DNA repair, telomere maintenance, redox environment, stem cell populations, and intercellular communication."
Essentially, for those with a sufficient understanding of the biological sciences, this means that scientists have found the part of DNA that essentially makes it age, found the parts that affect it, and are now studying it further.
So finding parts of DNA that are similar to humans could mean that one day, several decades from now, it could be used to reverse aging in humans, or help treat many diseases we can't currently treat.
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