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Could jellyfish help find a formula for immortality?

04-Oct-2015

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Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish studied.

When under threat their cells begin a process called transdifferentiation in which certain cells mutate into other types of cells, e.g. muscle cells becoming eggs or sperms.

New cell types could arise either through a differentiation of uncommitted stem cells or by cellular trandifferentiation of differentiated medusa cells.

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Louise Gentle

Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation at Nottingham Trent University

Maximina Yun

Research Group Leader at the CRTD/DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden.

Stefano Piraino

Professor of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Salento.

University of Salento

Public research university in Lecce, Italy.

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