Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

piusk 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

how does this work, when they just sting

UltraSane an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?

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 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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karim79 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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dspnc 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

TL/DR: be made of jelly