The process the immortal jellyfish uses to cheat death is like a form of cloning. If we can adapt it to the human body, it ...

It almost sounds like something from a fantasy novel: a creature that can turn back the clock and virtually escape death ...

Image via Wikimedia Commons The hydrozoan Turritopsis dohrnii, an animal about 4.5 millimetres wide and tall (likely making it smaller than the nail on your little finger), can actually reverse its ...

And one hydrozoan, the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii), seen here in a water drop, has a life cycle that skips death: It reverts from a medusa back to a polyp. How, no one knows.

Turritopsis dohrnii follows a typical jellyfish life cycle, beginning as a larva and maturing into a polyp and then an adult medusa. However, it can revert to the polyp stage in response to stress ...

These longest-living animals have the remarkable quality of regenerating their cells infinitely, thus reversing the ageing ...

And it’s not just a theory. Meet Turritopsis dohrnii, a jellyfish that’s surprising the scientific community with its rare ability to reverse ageing and return to a younger form, potentially ...

The immortal jellyfish has the ability to switch back to its... younger self. And that's not it. When the jellyfish goes back into its previous life stage as a polyp, it also creates more ...