Can Turritopsis Nutricula be the Answer to Immortality?

For centuries people have been trying to find a way to make themselves immortal, deathless unless being killed by an organism stranger to their bodies. The means they seek in order to find the secret of immortality have been changing day by day. At first, when people were living as tribes, they mostly believed the one among the people in their small group was to be unique. As the only force was the sinew, physical power of a person, the one who believed to be unique was sometimes treated as immortal. Then there came an era in which people believed magic and witchery which they consider the possible actions for immortality. Therefore nations and empires made war with each other to own the most popular wizards of the time.

Today the only hope of human being is genetics, a new branch of science, discovered at the middle of the 19. century.  Gregor Mendel was the first scientist who tries to understand the system of heritable transfer. Afterwards, scientist started to introduce the mechanism lying behind the causes of biological diversity which now makes it easy to talk about like what describes the blood type or eye color of a person. Since the big progress has been made in the research area of genetics so far, scientists frequently find out a different gene which determines a certain character of an organism. A few days ago research experts discovered a kind of jellyfish regenerating itself. The name of this organism which lives in tropical waters is Turritopsis Nutricula and they live in all tropical waters. According to the scientists with the ability of regenerating its cells, Turritopsis Nutricula is kind of immortal. Like any other living object, it is aging but at the end of its adolescence period, it comes back to beginning of the adolescence by multiplying. In other words, regular proliferation activities provide this organism with refreshing its body which at least can help human being in fighting the diseases. Although this is the very beginning of gaining knowledge about the immortality, as the researches are getting deeper, scientists can finally attain how the gene structure of an organism should be in order for a stable biological age.

Human being has just passed a milestone on the way of understanding about the link between genetics and immortality. Now the arguments about the possible effects of any level of immortality is going to enlarge but who knows, some day humankind can be able to figure out a gene structure such a way that the life time of a person increase some certain level.