immortal jellyfish

Humans have always sought for a way to obtain eternal life since we achieved developed brain. People made a lot of tales and superstitions about obtaining eternal life and scientists repeated trial and error for thousands of years. In 1991, the discovery of an immortal jellyfish created a big sensation among scientists. Jellyfish is an adult form of the creature and the baby form is called polyp and polyp is adhering on rocks on the bottom of the sea. This new discovered jellyfish can return to the stage of polyp after reproduction while others die and disappear in water. It is not really eternal life in the sense of living forever, but after aging they return to baby and repeat life again with the same body and DNA. It is said that they can live forever if there are no predators and the biggest number of reviving process observed is ten times at the laboratory in Kyoto, Japan. The research for eternal life has proceeded a lot after the discovery and it is said that one day, humans CAN obtain eternal life by biotechnology of genetic modification.