Study shows dying cells impact on surroundings causing changes to tissue shape and structure
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A study conducted by researchers affiliated with three major institutions in France has found that dying cells appear to cause more changes to surrounding tissue than has been previously thought. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how their study of a fluorescent version of myosin undergoing cell death led to the discovery that as cells die, they undergo a process that is involved in epithelium folding. Claudia Vasquez and Adam Martin with MIT offer a News & Views perspective in the same journal issue on the work done by the team in France and offer more insight into the role that cell death plays in epithelial tissue structural changes.