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Critical role in programmed cell death identified

to tumors and other complications.

"Mammalian studies that have implicated mitochondrial fragmentation in cell death have been done under rather artificial conditions, in tissue culture, not using natural cell death stimuli, " Conradt explains. "Our work was done in vivo; in the worm. We looked at cells that normally die, so it's more solid."


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Source:Dartmouth Medical School


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