Hydraulic instability decides who's to die and who's to live
E-Mail IMAGE: Left: Picture of two balloons connected through a central tube, any new air coming through the white pipe will inflate the red balloon rather than the blue one. Right: Spinning-disk confocal... view more Credit: Nicolas Chartier et al. Nature Physics, 20 May 2021 In past studies, researchers have found that C. elegans gonads generate more germ cells than needed and that only half of them grow to become oocytes, while the rest shrinks and die by physiological apoptosis, a programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Now, scientists from the Biotechnol...
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