During the cell-death program known as apoptosis, cells break up into membrane-bound fragments. It emerges that this process is controlled by the protein pannexin 1 and can be deregulated by an antibiotic. See Article p.329
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Gregory, C. The disassembly of death. Nature 507, 312–313 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13213
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