Dying cells in fruit fly alert neighboring cells to protect themselves
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 21:00
in Biology & Nature
Cells usually self-destruct when irreparable glitches occur in their DNA. Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, helps insure that cells with damaged DNA do not grow and replicate to produce more mutated cells. Apoptosis thereby helps protect and insure the survival of the organism.