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Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

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by zerobees

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This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a marine research organization to research.
Yes, it's probably not gonna help humans, unless some of your friends are gelatinous blobs with no circulatory or nervous system and with a lifespan measured in months.

by wxw

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> The medusa, the free-swimming form most people picture when they hear the term jellyfish, is only one stage of the animal’s life cycle.
> We tend to think of the flower—or the jellyfish—as the organism, but these are actually reproductive units.
I'll never look at jellyfish the same.

by KurSix

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What I like about this work is that the jellyfish may be less important as a source of some magical "regeneration gene" and more useful as a system where you can actually see the basic mechanics clearly

by Eleg007

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by UltraSane

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by metalman

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Jellyfish, bieng transparent and without a brain, dont have any secrets, and instantainious wound healing might be the compensation for that, or price, but by all accounts they have managed to get by more or less as they are, for 700 million years and so will likely be availible for further observation, for as long as we manage to stick around.

by karim79

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At first glance I imagined this was a magic way to heal a wound by rubbing a jellyfish on it. Skin irritation be damned, this is gonna save lives.
But no. No such joy.

by YeahThisIsMe

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by dspnc

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by piusk

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