Seltsame Kreatur, die den Tod betrügt: Es könnte das Geheimnis der Unsterblichkeit halten

> A new international study has revealed that the Mnemiopsis leidyi, more commonly known as the warty comb jelly, is capable of **reversing its life cycle**, returning from adulthood to a juvenile state when injured or starved. Researchers believe this may be one of nature’s rarest survival hacks—one that could one day help us better understand human aging, regeneration, or even extend life itself.

> To observe this bizarre behavior, the team placed 65 adult comb jellies in tanks without food for over two weeks. The conditions were harsh, but the results were stunning. Rather than simply deteriorating, 13 of the jellies began to shrink and morph back into their larval form—essentially rebooting their lives.

> In the second part of the experiment, scientists surgically removed the lobes—gelatinous structures crucial to the jelly’s body shape—from 15 adult comb jellies to simulate traumatic injury. The outcome shocked researchers: six of the jellies **fully regenerated in just 15 days.**

> The takeaway? **The more severe the damage, the faster the regeneration.**

> This isn’t the first sea creature to puzzle scientists with its ability to cheat death. The Turritopsis dohrnii, better known as the immortal jellyfish, has famously been studied for its natural ability to revert to its juvenile polyp stage—**again and again.**

> **But there’s a key difference:** while Turritopsis dohrnii resets its life cycle as a natural part of its aging process, the warty comb jelly only seems to undergo its life-reversing transformation in response to extreme trauma or starvation.

Who needs immortality and why in this shithole of world?

I suspect this metamorphosis is less about a creature reviving itself as it is autonomous metabolic mechanisms killing one version of the creature to reconstitute another individual using the same biomass. Sure, genetically, the two are likely to be the same, but even if this process could be replicated in humans, there’s no way it would preserve a life.

And even that isn’t taking into consideration the overhead cost of biological systems that enable themselves to gracefully terminate and regrow. There is no way a human brain is going to be doing that.

That said, there could be useful insights into certain organ regeneration. Simple structures might be made easier to heal or replace. I’m sure this is a very interesting project for the researchers.

even if the science works out a way to be able to utilise it on humans, I can’t see any future where the product would be available to anyone who isn’t part of the 1%ers.. I can see it now, immortal dictators taking over the world.

Death is the great equaliser, let’s keep it that way.

pretty sure they „discovered“ immortal jellyfishes ages ago.

this seems like a clickbait headline.

We’ve known about similar species that do the same things forever… it’s literally called the immortal jellyfish

I don’t even think I’d want to live forever. But having a more usable body from 40-80 might be something I’d consider.

I would love the opportunity to live as long as I want. I have no imagination that I’m going to live forever especially since most likely you can’t escape the heat death of the universe if it doesn’t just rip apart before then.

But outside of that my assumption is I’m not going out naturally in this life anyway even without life extension. If it ever gets to where I feel like I’m struggling to breathe a lot of the time or it gets too hard to lift up a 15 lb weight and can’t train back to it I’m checking out.

If I could expand that time frame though for thousands maybe even millions of years before I get sick of it and toss myself, probably at that point alao several copied bodies, into the Sun for whatever other star I’m close to at the time. That would be cool!

Octonauts did an episode on this like 10 years ago

„Discovered“? Seriously? We’ve known about these things forever. Clickbait is clickbait. I hate how futurology is used to have some of the most inane conversations sometimes, be it people asking pie in the sky questions no one has any answers to or stuff like this.

To cheat death is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret.

Hey folks, this is a friendly heads up:

I don’t think this is a good idea to pursue.

The secret to biological immortality: total lack of a nervous system