91 pointsby hhs8 hours ago8 comments
  • zerobees4 hours ago
    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.

    • hsbauauvhabzb3 hours ago
      What about if they exhibit three out of four of those symptoms?
  • wxw3 hours ago
    > 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.

    • Waterluvian3 hours ago
      Wait, so they’re sea jizz?!
    • psychoslave21 minutes ago
      I mean, all in all, most life forms are reproductive unit in some stage, or part of i, from the species point of view. Though some individual prove sterile.
  • Eleg0073 hours ago
    The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.
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  • UltraSane6 hours ago
    Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?
    • packetlost6 hours ago
      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
      • andsoitis5 hours ago
        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.

        • sophrosyne424 hours ago
          Whats the difference between a siphonophore and a single organism? Aren't all the organs of an organism genetically identical, specialized, fused together, and functionally dependent on each other?
          • timschmidt3 hours ago
            It's a very fuzzy line. But according to The Octopus Lady's video in the other comment, it's because separating them from the other zooids doesn't result in immediate death. They may die later due to lack of ability to swim, or eat, but that is a secondary cause which is considered important.
          • 3 hours ago
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      • timschmidt5 hours ago
        You're thinking of Siphonophores like the Portugese Man-o-war. The Octopus Lady has a wonderful video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDpbYQdFEA
    • andsoitis5 hours ago
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  • karim795 hours ago
    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.

  • piusk5 hours ago
    how does this work, when they just sting
    • jagged-chisel4 hours ago
      Healing their own wounds, not ours.
    • 144 hours ago
      Nothing in the article mentioned stinging I am confused what you are asking ?
  • dspnc5 hours ago
    TL/DR: be made of jelly