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Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets (mbl.edu)
UltraSane 2 hours ago [-]
Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
packetlost 2 hours ago [-]
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
andsoitis 47 minutes ago [-]
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.

timschmidt 21 minutes ago [-]
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
andsoitis 42 minutes ago [-]
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piusk 40 minutes ago [-]
how does this work, when they just sting
14 14 minutes ago [-]
Nothing in the article mentioned stinging I am confused what you are asking ?
karim79 59 minutes ago [-]
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.

dspnc 1 hours ago [-]
TL/DR: be made of jelly
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