Jellyfish Sting Mechanism Unveiled; Could Help Design Future Delivery Devices

Summertime beachgoers are all too familiar with the painful sting of a jellyfish. But how do the stinging cells of jellyfish, corals, and sea anemones actually work? New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has unveiled a precise operational model for the stinging organelle—or nematocyst—of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis. Read more…