Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
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Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#2Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#3Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
They're not even technically one organism, but colonies of independent but mostly specialized organisms. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with the articles title
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#5TL/DR: be made of jelly
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#6At 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.
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#7Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
They're not even technically one organism, but colonies of independent but mostly specialized organisms. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with the articles title
True jellyfish (like moon jellies, box jellyfish)are a single organism, just like you or me. Theres a single genome and one body.
Portuguese man o’ war is not a single organism at all but a siphonophore, a colony of many genetically identical but specialized individual organisms called zooids, all fused together and functionally dependent on each other.
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#8Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
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Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#9how does this work, when they just sting
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#10Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
They're not even technically one organism, but colonies of independent but mostly specialized organisms. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with the articles title
You're thinking of Siphonophores like the Portugese Man-o-war. The Octopus Lady has a wonderful video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDpbYQdFEA