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Breakthrough in Regeneration: Fruit Fly Cells Survive Radiation

1/23/2026

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Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science identified two radiation-surviving cell types in fruit flies that aid regeneration.
DARE cells activate a death program and then halt it.
NARE cells never initiate the death process.
A missile strike on the institute disrupted work, but researchers salvaged critical fruit fly specimens.
The findings were published in Nature Communications.

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Story summary

Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science identified two radiation-surviving cell types in fruit flies that aid regeneration.
DARE cells activate a death program and then halt it.
NARE cells never initiate the death process.
A missile strike on the institute disrupted work, but researchers salvaged critical fruit fly specimens.
The findings were published in Nature Communications.