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Immortality Is Not Just For Vampires Anymore
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish might be the key to learning about why animals age. Individual jellyfish can grow up from a polyp into an adult jelly — and then revert back to a polyp. Obviously, whatever genetic trick these jellyfish have… could be a trick that only jellyfish or other very simple organisms are able to perform. But it’s still a neat trick.
