Scientists may have learned more about how the immortal jellyfish lives such a long life and what allows it to reverse its aging.
Harnessing certain genomes from the immortal jellyfish could provide age-reversing properties one day. Image source: Tommaso Lizzul / Adobe
According to the comparisons, there are over 1,000 genes that could provide the age-reversing aspect of the immortal jellyfish’s design. Of these 1,000 genes, the scientists say that one genome specifically seemed to provide two aspects not seen in other jellyfish. This genome not only silences the polycomb repressive complexes, two families of proteins responsible for gene expression, but it also activates pluripotency. The latter is the capacity of a stem cell to become whatever cell it needs to become, an important aspect of the jellyfish’s long life.
Although called the immortal jellyfish, T. dorhnii doesn’t live forever. And the genes that contribute to the de-aging process most likely work in some kind of combination together. Still, scientists are confident we may be able to gleam something that can helpIt probably won’t grant us immortality, but it could help us slow down the toll that time takes on the human body.Joshua Hawkins fell in love with writing and technology at a young age.
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