Is immortality possible? – video

Fictional scientist Jeremy Bumble dreams of the day when mankind can break the shackles of the ageing process so that he can once againe feel the silky-smooth skin of his younger self. But could it ever happen? He explains why a special jellyfish called 'turritopsis dohrnii', coupled with process called 'transdifferentiation', shows that immortality is possible - sort of. Go science!

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