Death in darkness: a new type of cell death discovered in fly guts - EurekAlert

A research group at RIKEN, Japan has discovered a completely unknown type of cell death that takes place in the guts of the common fruit fly. The new process, coined “erebosis” by the researchers is thought to play a role in gut metabolism. The findings neces…

image: During erebosis, fluorescent proteins such as GFP and RFP become lost, making cells black. In the beginning of erebosis, cells lose cytoplasmic GFP (left bottom cells). Then, erebotic cells lo… [+3874 chars]

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