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Death brings new life to muscle

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Fusion of muscle cells called myoblasts underlies the generation and maintenance of skeletal muscle throughout an animal's life. Emerging data indicate that cell death acts as a signal to enhance these processes in mammals. See Letter p.263

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Figure 1: Helping hand from a dying cell.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion were published online on 24 April 2013.

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  1. Shannon F. Yu and Mary K. Baylies are in the Program in Developmental Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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  2. S.F.Y. is also at the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.,

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