The field of sepsis research has advanced significantly in recent years, particularly regarding the interplay between immune responses and multiple forms of ...

Aging cells secrete substances known to promote the growth of cancer cells. The development of drugs that can selectively kill these cells or inhibit the secretion of substances is ongoing. The latest ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

Cellular death is a fundamental concept in the biological sciences. Given its significance though, its definition depends on the context in which it takes place, and lacks a general mathematical ...

Apoptosis, a biological process through which a cell dies, occurs regularly, allowing the body to rid itself of extra, old, or abnormal cells. In a healthy individual, over 200 billion cells undergo ...

There’s a thin line between the living and the dead, and for cells, it depends on whether chemical processes which shut down can be returned to their active states. Cellular death is a fundamental ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs suggest that manipulating a hidden “death switch” in our cells could significantly slow the aging process. This discovery, coupled with findings that caffeine can ...

Plants form a critical model for understanding regulated cell death (RCD) as part of their sophisticated immune responses. In the ongoing evolutionary arms ...

Contrary to misconceptions among medical professionals and patients alike, individuals born with sickle cell trait (SCT) show no risk of experiencing the acute pain crises known to occur with sickle ...