Volume 23, No 2, Feb 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 2, February 2013: 171-172

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

If you don't want them shed them

Ehsan Pourkarimi¹ and Anton Gartner¹

¹Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK Correspondence: Anton Gartner(a.gartner@dundee.ac.uk)

Seminal studies in C. elegans contributed to our general understanding of programmed cell death conferred by apoptosis. A recent study unravelled a new form of cell death in the worm and provided insights into its regulation. Affected cells are shed from intact tissues, a modality of death likely to be conserved and relevant to cancer.

Cell Research (2013) 23:171–172; doi:10.1038/cr.2012.121; published online 21 August 2012

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