{"id":938764,"date":"2026-10-19T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:52:18","slug":"the-immortal-jellyfish-can-beat-ageing-it-could-inspire-treatments-for-diseases-of-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938764\/","title":{"rendered":"The immortal jellyfish can beat ageing. It could inspire treatments for diseases of old age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">As such, the immortal jellyfish offers an important lesson, says Maria Pascual-Torner of Spain&#8217;s Institute of Marine Sciences, who conducted the 2022 study with Quesada. &#8220;Although it has the ability to rejuvenate and, theoretically, not die from ageing, it is at the same time an extremely vulnerable organism,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The immortal jellyfish also reminds us that life and death are inseparable parts of the same reality.&#8221; In other words, even nature&#8217;s most immortal organism has to face death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As such, the immortal jellyfish offers an important lesson, says Maria Pascual-Torner of Spain&#8217;s Institute of Marine Sciences,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-938764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}