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  • zerobees
    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.
  • wxw
    > 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.
  • KurSix
    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
  • Eleg007
    The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.
  • UltraSane
    Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
  • YeahThisIsMe
    Have they tried waterboarding them, yet?
  • anon
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  • karim79
    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
    TL/DR: be made of jelly
  • piusk
    how does this work, when they just sting