I saw that too. If we could figure out the genetic basis for this, we might be able to do some crazy stuff in people, too.
wow, this makes me want to make a story about an immortal being living among the jellyfish. maybe spongebob should go jellyfishing more often.
I saw this on wikipedia a while back and it did intrigue me. Not sure if it can be spliced into humanity, but that's abunch of ethics I don't want to mess with.
If this were able to get to humans, we'd have a huge overpopulation problem on our hands. Pretty intersting though.
Compared to now? I already think we do. If anything was able to come from this, medicinally, I would hope it'd only be for the sick.
I think having the ones considered 'an important mind' getting special treatment may cause an upraor, not saying weather or not I agree since I am indifferent on the matter. I think using the ability to heal your organs would be most useful, stopping the need for organ implants. Of course, however, there's countless issues on the immortal bit. Not to mention countries might become like China, limiting how many childern you can have. Some might not allow reproduction or become like something I've read before where only a few woman have kids only after so many people have died, having been killed off after being a refuge or something along those lines. The idea of immortality is interesting though...
