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Stop competing, start talking!
Author(s) -
Fava Luca L,
Villunger Andreas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.15252/embj.201489466
Subject(s) - biology , destiny (iss module) , mitosis , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , astronomy
According to current belief, the molecular networks orchestrating cell death or exit from mitosis upon extended mitotic arrest do not interact, stubbornly executing two parallel biological programs and competing to define a stochastic decision between death and a chance for survival with uncertain destiny. However, recent findings by Diaz‐Martinez et al ([Diaz‐Martinez LA, 2014]) in this issue of The EMBO Journal now call for a reassessment of the “competing network” hypothesis.