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- A team led by biologist Stanislav Kremnyov at Friedrich Schiller University Jena transplanted comb-jelly organizer cells into sea anemone embryos, creating extra mouths and pharynxes.
- The results were published in Nature on 17 June.
- Because comb jellies are an early animal lineage, the experiment informs the evolutionary origins of the organizer.
- Ulrich Technau called the discovery exciting, while some scientists remain skeptical of the cross-phylum claim.
