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All the ways a cell can die - and why the variety matters
Scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die, and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions.
The cells in Daolin Tang’s Petri dishes were dead. Signs of life had dropped off a cliff; they weren’t reproducing. They were goners.
And that was good; the cell biologist had been looking for chemicals that would poison cancer cells.
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