Researchers in Spain have cracked the genetic code of the immortal jellyfish, so-called because it can repeatedly rejuvenate itself – a feat scientists hope can lead to advances in how to treat ...

There is, however, one exception—a creature no more than four millimeters in size Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as "the immortal jellyfish". Biological immortality, within reach of a jellyfish ...

Immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) are smaller than the nail on your pinky finger. Ian Gavan / Getty Images In oceans across the globe, a tiny jellyfish species—smaller than the nail on ...

T. dohrnii, dubbed the immortal jellyfish, goes through a life cycle just like other species of jellyfish. In one of these stages, the jellyfish attach to the seafloor as a polyp — basically a ...

An immortal species of jellyfish has double copies of genes that protect and repair DNA. The finding could provide clues to human ageing and age-related conditions. Jellyfish start their lives as ...

A potentially "immortal" jellyfish species that can age backward—the Benjamin Button of the deep—is silently invading the world's oceans, swarm by swarm, a recent study says. Like the Brad ...

Few, however, have evolved to break the typical life cycle. The aptly named immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) is one such animal — and, in a surprise discovery now published in ...

They are, effectively, immortal. Now, in a paper published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have taken a detailed look at the jellyfish’s genome ...

In its polyp form, jellyfish can live and reproduce asexually for long periods of time, even for decades, Smithsonian reports. One species, however, has gained the title of "immortal." Turritopsis ...