Avid Bioservices Inc (CDMO)

[jazzbeerman]

"How do healthy cells benefit from ingesting leftovers?"


The organism stays alive, that's how. Multicellular organisms that don't 'lick the plate / ingest leftovers' as you say, ( delayed clearance of apoptotic cells) wind up with auto-immune disease, or worse - dead. A healthy cell with a dying neighbor cell better clean it up or call a professional, or that healthy cell won't stay healthy too long. There's a window of opportunity, as a cell dies, when it needs to be dealt with, or else nasty things escape, and harm their neighbors, and so on...
The apoptotic program developed out of necessity in parallel (or preceded) metazoans.


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