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Published online 14 May 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/453271a
Learning from death
Vishva Dixit's study of cellular demise led to the discovery of a new molecular-signalling mechanism - one with implications for inflammation and perhaps much more, reports Melinda Wenner.
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It is a very inspiring story as well as it tells that one can pursue his interests in basic science research very well in an so called "non-academic" set-up as well which has become more or less very sluggish where you spend most of your time in writing your grants and publishing papers without realizing that most of them would end up getting into oblivion after few years.