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

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is their ability to evade apoptosis, or programmed cell death, through changes in ...

In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur together. A study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, published in Cell, ...

A research team at Sejong University's Plant Immunity Laboratory, led by Professor Nam-Soo Jwa, has uncovered an important ...

After cells die, they leave a residue that sends messages to other cells in ways that are valuable to the immune system. But this process can also be hijacked by viruses such as influenza, according ...

The latest findings on the interaction between cell death and cellular senescence in cancer and their pathophysiological significance have been reviewed. Aging cells secrete substances known to ...

As the brain ages, it loses cells. Researchers have predominantly focused on the effects of cell death in brain areas responsible for cognition, but the cerebellum, most well-known for coordinating ...

A research team compared the effects of electrical stunning and carbon dioxide (CO₂) stunning on pork quality in commercial Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire pigs, revealing striking differences in how ...

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 ...