Scientists discover clues to aging and healing from a squishy sea creature.

#cniderian #Hydractinia #RNA #senescence

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-scientists-clues-aging-squishy-sea.html

Living up to your cnidarian potential

Read this #BehindthePaper story by Aine Varley from Uri Frank's lab, detailing the trials and tribulations of developing a technique to transplant a single i-cell in #Hydractinia, and the search for pluripotency of these #stemcells:

https://thenode.biologists.com/living-up-to-your-cnidarian-potential/research/

RT @thecocodium@twitter.com

Unlike most animals, #Hydractinia embryos do not complete gastrulation, carrying forward a population of embryonic-like #stemcells (aka i-cells) into adulthood. @VarleyAine@twitter.com et al show that an adult animal – soma and germline – can derive from one i-cell

https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.09.515637v1

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thecocodium/status/1590655689697153025