video: Apoptosis spreads through cytoplasm without slowing down or petering out. This left end of this tube of cytoplasm was dipped in an apoptotic extract. Apoptosis then spread across the tube at constant speed. Apoptosis is monitored with a fluorescent probe. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 10, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Xianrui Cheng at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Apoptosis propagates through the cytoplasm as trigger waves." view more
Credit: Xianrui Cheng and James E. Ferrell, Jr.