Are immortal jellyfish really immortal? No, they're not trulyimmortal jellyfish, butTurritopsis dohrnii, as it's known among scientists, can reverse age: If it's in the adult stage of the life cycle, it can revert back to its juvenile stage. This species is often likened toBenjam...
In plants, as in animals, most cells that constitute the organism limit their reproductive potential in order to provide collective support for the immortal germ line. And, as in animals, the mechanisms that restrict the proliferation of somatic cells in plants can fail, leading to tumours. Ther...
beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A slow, painful death is virtually certain. A ‘god’, if one exists, would have had to create such an organism purposefully – along with all the other diseases, afflictions and ...
Hydra is a small freshwater organism. It has tentacles that drift in the water, ready to snap up prey. A small, tubular body then digests this prey. Fascinatingly,the entire hydra can regrow from a single cell within six days!The single cell begins by dividing. It then divides itself ...
Are immortal jellyfish really immortal? No, they're not trulyimmortal jellyfish, butTurritopsis dohrnii, as it's known among scientists, can reverse age: If it's in the adult stage of the life cycle, it can revert back to its juvenile stage. This species is often likened toBenjam...