This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a marine research organization to research.

Yes, it's probably not gonna help humans, unless some of your friends are gelatinous blobs with no circulatory or nervous system and with a lifespan measured in months.

> The medusa, the free-swimming form most people picture when they hear the term jellyfish, is only one stage of the animal’s life cycle.

> We tend to think of the flower—or the jellyfish—as the organism, but these are actually reproductive units.

I'll never look at jellyfish the same.

What I like about this work is that the jellyfish may be less important as a source of some magical "regeneration gene" and more useful as a system where you can actually see the basic mechanics clearly

The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.

Agreed. I always hated the 'two part', 'payoff'-based drama of titles like these, even before the LLM era. If it was lazy before (it was), it now comes off as 'one-click' lazy. Sadly, The Guardian has become infested with this style lately.

Same pattern as postmortems titled "the surprising reason our database went down." Nobody writes clickbait for the actual RCA, cause it's always "we didn't set a timeout."

Doctors hate them.

Same joke got made about maggot debridement back in the 90s. Now it's a real wound-care product line. Nature usually patents better than Pfizer.

Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?

Simpler tissue makes it easier to see the core mechanics without blood vessels, inflammation and a lot of other processes happening at the same time

They're not even technically one organism, but colonies of independent but mostly specialized organisms. I'd be willing to bet that has something to do with the articles title

Jellyfish, bieng transparent and without a brain, dont have any secrets, and instantainious wound healing might be the compensation for that, or price, but by all accounts they have managed to get by more or less as they are, for 700 million years and so will likely be availible for further observation, for as long as we manage to stick around.

At first glance I imagined this was a magic way to heal a wound by rubbing a jellyfish on it. Skin irritation be damned, this is gonna save lives.

But no. No such joy.

Aloe seals moisture in, jellyfish tissue actively triggers wound closure via signaling molecules. Not comparable mechanisms, just both feel slimy.

Just use the terrestrial gelatinous equivalent, Aloe vera. It works wonderfully creating a sort of jellyfish skin over your skin.

Have they tried waterboarding them, yet?

9 out of 10 doctors…

worked with jellyfish collagen extract couple years back, regen speed no joke, wound closure way faster than mammal tissue in vitro. no torture needed, just cut and watch.

TL/DR: be made of jelly

how does this work, when they just sting

Healing their own wounds, not ours.

Nothing in the article mentioned stinging I am confused what you are asking ?

Minutes for jellyfish, sure, but scale that gap up: mouse takes days, human weeks. Anyone tested if speed just tracks metabolic rate, not some special mechanism?