Whether a cell lives or dies depends on various local cues. New work reveals that those cues include a cell's spatial relationship with its neighbours and polarized interactions with the adjacent extracellular matrix.
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Yamada, K., Clark, K. Survival in three dimensions. Nature 419, 790–791 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419790a
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