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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.
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…
The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.
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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.
Whats the difference between a siphonophore and a single organism? Aren't all the organs of an organism genetically identical, specialized, fused together, and functionally dependent on each other?
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…
What about if they exhibit three out of four of those symptoms?
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…
Novo Nordisk might challenge the idea that application follows directly from research objectives
> 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.
Wait, so they’re sea jizz?!
Fun fact; where I grew up, we only had (at the time at least) two different types of jellyfish in the sea, blue and red ones. Easy to tell apart, one is "good", one is bad. However, now living in a very different place, suddenly what I learnt as a child is no longer right, there are tens of different species, some bad blue ones, some "less bad" red ones, and the easy "blue good, red bad" no longer works and it took a hard lesson to learn about this :)
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…
Is also in the same group that has the only animals known to be potentially immortal. I'm not joking. This things exist. So the word "heal" here can mean different things than people expects. Imagine that as we grow older and decaying we could decide to grow a new genetic clone of "me" inside and reborn as happy babies, discarding our older shell. Some of this animals can do this to "heal" and the trick can be used an undefined amount of times. Those creatures are really ancient and have a few tricks on their sleeves.
Relevant for humans, as reef corals are related with jellyfishes and have free larvae that could respond in a similar way to temperature damage. Clytia could thrive when corals will die. This just another clue that some people is being more and more concerned by AMOC, even if it may be too late yet with all the warmongers ruining our last chances
> 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.
Wait, so they’re sea jizz?!
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.