Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...

Transdifferentiation reprogrammes the medusa's specialised cells to become ... The discovery, aided by the spectacular nickname 'immortal jellyfish', captured the world's attention. T. dohrnii may ...

Essentially, when faced with stress, injury or old age, the immortal jellyfish can transform all of its existing cells into a younger state. This process, known as transdifferentiation ...

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Turritopsis dohrnii, often called the "immortal jellyfish," will undergo a process called "transdifferentiation" in response to physical damage or starvation. During this, a medusa jellyfish will ...

The so-called immortal jellyfish resembles a tiny ... Scientists call the near-miraculous process transdifferentiation. Moon jellies and their cousins, which include lion’s mane jellies and ...

They took 65 adult jellies and basically put them through jellyfish boot camp – no food for 15 days, followed by the tiniest portions ever. The results? Mind-blowing. In what might be the most ...

The immortal jellyfish has the ability to switch back to its... younger self. And that's not it. When the jellyfish goes back into its previous life stage as a polyp, it also creates more ...

T. dohrnii, dubbed the immortal jellyfish, goes through a life cycle just like other species of jellyfish. In one of these stages, the jellyfish attach to the seafloor as a polyp — basically a ...