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27 October 2026
Live or Die
An enzyme in fruit flies Dcp1 that underpins programmed cell death – the kind of death that's regulated and of benefit to normal tissue functioning – here in a study of wing development, is found to also have a non-lethal role, promoting tissue growth. The divergence to death or growth is controlled by Bruce and other autophagy (self-digesting)-related proteins
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- Image (adapted) from work by Natsuki Shinoda and colleagues
- Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in eLife, October 2026
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