Dying to hold you

Kimon Doukoumetzidis and Michael O. Hengartner
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Kimon Doukoumetzidis: Kimon Doukoumetzidis and Michael O. Hengartner are at the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. michael.hengartner@molbio.uzh.ch
Michael O. Hengartner: Kimon Doukoumetzidis and Michael O. Hengartner are at the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. michael.hengartner@molbio.uzh.ch

Nature, 2008, vol. 451, issue 7178, 530-531

Abstract: Certain cells bind so tightly to each other that, on occasion, one cell ends up inside another, usually with fatal consequences for the ingested cell. This involuntary cell death might help protect us from cancer.

Date: 2008
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