It's a cell-eat-cell world in there. And apparently, that's a good thing, too. "In the body, almost any cell can eat other cells," Kodi Ravichandran told BioWorld Today. Ravichandran, who is at the University of Virginia, and his colleagues have demonstrated that in the lungs, epithelial cells that eat their apoptotic neighbors play a critical role in tuning the inflammatory tone, through secreting anti-inflammatory cytokines as they eat their brethren.