Prof. Zheng Lianming and his team first found the life cycle reversal in Aurelia

Posted: 2016-04-03   Visits: 79

    On 21 Dec. 2015, PLOS ONE published the finding of Zheng Lianming, associate professor of College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University, and his student He Jingru in the research on the life cycle reversal in Aurelia.

    Such a finding, for its initial, has become the spotlight with it widely reported by the media, such as National Geographic (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160302-jellyfish-immortal-science-animals-oceans-deadpool/ ), The Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/03/03/immortal-moon-jellyfish-could-help-us-cure-cancer_n_9372124.html ), Daily Mailhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3473857/The-immortal-jellyfish-Researchers-creature-age-backward-form-hordes-clones-regenerate-lost-body-parts.html ), BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35726433 ), and(http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0303/c202936-9024553.html ), etc.

    Link to the following website for the article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145314 .