It sounds incredible, but it seems that humanity is only one step away from immortality! The famous Italian biologist Ferdinando Boero discovered a jellyfish that is able to cyclically regain its youth. The unique representative of the fauna Turritopsis nutricula lives in the southern seas and is one of the oldest creatures on the planet. Now zoologists are trying to figure out the mechanism by which the jellyfish turns on the countdown, if we manage to reproduce it, then humanity can start the mechanism of self-rejuvenation.
Turritopsis nutrikula is an eternally living jellyfish of the southern seas, surprisingly, this underwater animal knows neither old age nor death, nutricula can die only from the attack of predators. The ageless creature was discovered by the Italian biologist Ferdinando Boero. This happened by accident during the experiment, the professor's assistants forgot about the aquarium with jellyfish and the water dried up in it, they already wanted to wash it, but they looked closely.
Ferdinando Boero is the biologist who discovered Turritopsis nutricula.
Any organism begins its life with a cell, then the cell is divided into organs and systems, some become a skeleton, the second muscles, and others nerves and blood vessels. This process is called differentiation and before the discovery of Professor Boero it was considered irreversible.
The first results of the study of the jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula were so incredible that even Ferdinando Boero himself did not believe in the reversibility of life cycles.
Jellyfish are one of the most ancient creatures on Earth, it's hard to imagine, but they existed 650 million years ago. Scientists believe that the secret of their longevity is that nature used a different code during their formation.
After Italian biologists unravel the secret of jellyfish rejuvenation, they will try to apply it in the human genome.
Russian scientists are also looking for the key to longevity in the ocean, namely in a special kind of microbes that live in melt water. Their ability to go into hibernation (fall asleep for years) when the environment becomes unsuitable for life can be the key for prolonging youth and for a person.
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Surprisingly, the key to eternal life is sought even in oncogenes.
However, immortality can have serious disadvantages. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average life expectancy of a person has doubled and is now 79 years. If scientists manage to achieve a result in 150-200 years, then in half a century there will be more than 60 billion of us and such a number of people will destroy the resources of our planet in less than 15 years.
