Apoptosis is characterized by a series of dramatic perturbations to the cellular architecture that contribute not only to cell death, but also prepare cells for removal by phagocytes. Apoptotic cell ...

A new Dartmouth study opens new avenues for understanding—and potentially manipulating—how cells decide to live or die.

In multicellular organisms, the total number of cells is a balance between the cell-generating effects of mitosis and cell death that is induced through apoptosis. A disruption of this delicate ...

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A research team has now decoded the function of two key apoptotic genes from fish—Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD) and caspase-8 (caspase-8)—revealing their roles in cell death and ...

How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive ...