Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown feature of cell death that reshapes how the immune system identifies and ...

Researchers at Umeå University have contributed new insights into how cancer cells protect themselves from cell death.

Now, in a study published March 30 in Cell Chemical Biology, UB scientists have shed light on one such stressor, showing that ...

In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon. In cancer, dangerous cells don't die soon enough. That's because both diseases alter the way cells decide when to end their lives, a process called programmed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DARE cells When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

When cells experience enough chronic stress, they can stop dividing permanently. In this state of cellular limbo, known as ...

The duplication and division of cells is critical to keeping all multicellular organisms alive. But the opposite process is equally important: cell death. Controlled death of cells, or programmed cell ...

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study. The process 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, ...

Metacaspases, ancestral homologues of the caspase family, are pivotal cysteine proteases found in a wide range of unicellular organisms, including yeasts, algae, and phytoplankton. These enzymes ...