For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

Apoptosis, often referred to as programmed cell death, is a fundamental process crucial to the growth and development of multicellular organisms. This process, or a primordial form of it, is also ...

The progression from a normal cell to a fully malignant cancer cell involves a number of steps that result in the selection for poorly regulated self-renewal, deregulated proliferation, successful ...