Recent Examples on the WebBlebs 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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