> Meanwhile, if someone decides to chew up my liver, their also getting a few ml of blood may be a fact, but perhaps not an important one, all things considered.

Hi Anne
Thanks for the colorful description! I think the comparison of the fat bodies to the liver may be a stretch, though. (I was going to mention vampires, zombies, etc but never mind).

> The fat body has always been thought to be a physically static presence, in that fat body cells were thought to assemble into an organ in order to play their manifold parts. Franz et al. introduce a new unexpected feature of the fat body: upon external injury, its giant fat cells can dissociate from the organ, actively move through the animal, physically plug the site of injury, and cooperate with co-recruited immune cells to repair the defect.

Developmental Cell 44, February 26, 2018

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