What jellyfish can teach us about immortality

Do jellyfish hold the secret to immortality, and a cure for cancer?
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

Nathaniel Rich on the so-called “immor­tal jel­ly­fish,” Tur­ri­top­sis dohrnii: “[It] seems able to sur­vive, and pro­lif­er­ate, in every ocean in the world. It is pos­si­ble to imag­ine a dis­tant future in which most other species of li…

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