CellBioNewsJun 30, 2023

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

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

Insights into healing and aging were discovered by National Institutes of Health researchers and their collaborators, who studied how a tiny sea creature regenerates an entire new body from only its mouth. The researchers sequenced RNA from Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, a small, tube-shaped animal that lives on the shells of hermit crabs. Just as the Hydractinia were beginning to regenerate new bodies, the researchers detected a molecular signature associated with the biological process of aging, also known as senescence.

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The NodeJun 23, 2023

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/

Living up to your cnidarian potential - the Node

Áine Varley tells the story behind the paper “Pluripotent, germ cell competent adult stem cells underlie cnidarian regenerative ability and clonal growth”.

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