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September 27, 2002
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Death and resurrection in 3-D
 
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Fluorescent images of key proteins in 3-D cell structures grown in reconstituted basement membrane: when their polarity is perturbed, nonmalignant cells lose their resistance to apoptosis. Disorganized malignant cells, unresistant to begin with, acquire resistance after being made to "revert" to polar organization.