9 October 2024 (Wednesday) - Turning Off Immunity?

Here’s something… two injured comb jellies have been seen to merge into one individual.
It’s been established that comb jellies do have an immune system, so what’s going on here. Clearly there is some mechanism in which the recognition of “non-self” is modified.
Could this have relevance to humans? Could this trick be used to increase the success rate of organ and bone marrow transplant? Will this herald a whole new era of lab tests for us to be doing?

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