This bizarre jellyfish-like creature could be used for anti-ageing treatments.
‘Typically, in humans, senescent cells stay senescent, and these cells cause chronic inflammation and induce ageing in adjacent cells.
Hydractinia uses stem cells, master cells that can turn into any kind of tissue. The team identified similar related genes in humans.While humans can’t get rid of ageing cells that easily, the roles of senescence-related genes in Hydractinia suggest how the process of ageing evolved. It can provide crucial insights into our earliest animal ancestors. Regeneration may have been the original function of senescence in the first animals.
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