What I like about this work is that the jellyfish may be less important as a source of some magical "regeneration gene" and more useful as a system where you can actually see the basic mechanics clearly
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
#32This 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 article is pretty explicit that the interesting part is that some of the underlying epithelial repair mechanisms appear to be conserved across animals, including mammals
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#33This 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…
Clytia is not just your normal jellyfish, is an organism that alternates between a jellyfish and a polyp that live in small colonies, not unlike corals but less complex and without hard calcified skeletons. 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 gr…
But I would still be careful not to blur together wound healing, regeneration and rejuvenation. They may share some cellular machinery, but they are not the same process
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#34> 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.
Same. Somehow "the jellyfish is basically the flower" is the detail that stuck with me more than the wound healing
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#35Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
Simpler tissue makes it easier to see the core mechanics without blood vessels, inflammation and a lot of other processes happening at the same time
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#36This 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…
I think it's the tiny chance they it will help humans that makes it so fascinating.
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#37Have they tried waterboarding them, yet?
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#38Have they tried waterboarding them, yet?
9 out of 10 doctors…
Re: Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets
#39This 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…
> 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.
Who knows, maybe we'll have organic suites for people or sealing membranes for mechanisms.
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#40The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.
Doctors hate them.