Which Came First?

Ah yes,that age old question,but what if a chicken could regress and turn itself into an egg? There is a jellyfish that has the ability to age backwards,and it can do it over and over. This jellyfish was first discovered in 1883 but the age reversal didn't become apparent until the 1990s. The immortal jellyfish typically reproduces and lives its life (and death) in the normal way but when starvation or injury threaten instead of dying it transforms cells into a younger state. When the aging is reversed the cells are completely transformed or swapped into different types of cells,a muscle cell may become a nerve cell or whatever cell is needed as the age is reversed.
Okay,here is the kicker you regular readers may have been anticipating...instead of billions of research dollars and mass quantities of scientists studying this amazing and possibly life saving creature there is one 60 year old man in Japan who is studying it on his own. Enough to make a person scratch their head isn't it? One researcher speculated that since the jellyfish is so small (about the size of the fingernail on your little finger) it hadn't attracted more attention as routinely it is the larger creatures that attract studies.