Cell Life, Cell Death (VIDEO)

University of Connecticut

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This is what happens when the essential gene Umbrea is removed from fruit fly cells: cell death. A group of molecular biologists, including assistant professor Barbara Mellone at UConn's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have shown that this gene, despite its relative youthful age of only 15 million years, is essential to reproduction.

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Video courtesy Barbara Mellone

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