Phages can kill bacteria on or in a multicellular host organism, such as the polyp of the moon jellyfish. Phages specialize ...

The immortal jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, has the ability to reverse age and theoretically live an eternal life.

This fingernail-sized, unassuming creature possesses the rare ability to revert back to its juvenile polyp stage after reaching maturity, which is an early stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish ...

In some cases, a new arm would begin to regrow. Cordeiro’s work for the lab is focused on juvenile jellyfish known as polyps. The researchers chop and separate the cells of the polyp. “You start to ...

It will then start to mature and grow. Larvae mature into polyps, which will then bud off and mature into young jellyfish.' An adult jellyfish is known as a medusa. Jellyfish belong to a group called ...

Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish ... man-of-war comprises four separate polyps. It gets its name from the uppermost ...

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 ...