Our understanding of distinct and diverse modes of cell death and their contributions to homeostasis has significantly progressed in recent years. In this Focus, we highlight exciting advances in this ...

A newly identified weakness in “zombie” cells may open the door to more precise cancer treatments by turning their own ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by ...

When cells are about to die, they send signals that trigger proteins which are supposed to destroy them, but it doesn’t always happen that way. Some cells activate the signal but then resist the ...

SEER 1975–2023 analysis demonstrated a long-term mortality inflection from rising rates to sustained declines, with the ...

Researchers at LMU University Hospital have discovered a new molecular switch that protects against cell death. Programmed cell death protects the body against cancer and other diseases. A team of ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

Apoptosis is a process in which cells die off, intentionally. This programmed cell death pathway helps eliminate billions of cells every day, most of which are blood or gut cells, so they can be ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. However, the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...