Making the ultimate family sacrifice

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:21 in Biology & Nature

There is no greater sacrifice than giving one's life for others, and a new study by Rice University biologists and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) geneticists is helping narrow the search for genes that drive single-celled amoebae to stick close to their kin before altruistically giving their all...

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