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Death drags down the neighbourhood

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An analysis of dying cells reveals that they play an active part in modifying tissue shape by pulling on neighbouring cells. This induces neighbouring cells to contract at their apices, which results in tissue folding. See Letter p.245

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Figure 1: Apoptosis and fold formation.

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  1. Claudia G. Vasquez and Adam C. Martin are in the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,

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Vasquez, C., Martin, A. Death drags down the neighbourhood. Nature 518, 171–173 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14198

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