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There were also some dubious pieces of visual evidence that ended up on the DOJ website, including a clearly fake video of Epstein's jail-cell suicide that was uploaded and later removed.
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Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Blebs signal cell suicide; when stressed cells start chopping up their own proteins, their membranes distend.
—Laura Mallonee, Wired, 19 May 2020
Cells use a variety of ways to eliminate their rivals, from kicking them out of a tissue to inducing cell suicide or even engulfing them and cannibalizing their components.
—Kendall Powell, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
Perhaps the mechanism that drives cell suicide will evolve a more sophisticated function.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2015
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Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
Blebs signal cell suicide; when stressed cells start chopping up their own proteins, their membranes distend.
—Laura Mallonee, Wired, 19 May 2020
Cells use a variety of ways to eliminate their rivals, from kicking them out of a tissue to inducing cell suicide or even engulfing them and cannibalizing their components.
—Kendall Powell, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
Perhaps the mechanism that drives cell suicide will evolve a more sophisticated function.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2015
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“Cell suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cell%20suicide. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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