Ageing is widely believed to be a non-adaptive process that results from a decline in the force of natural selection. However, recent studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are consistent with the ...

50 Years ago we suggested that cell death was ‘programmed’ or written into the developmental pattern of cells. Since that time we have come to understand the phenomenon of apoptosis, to understand its ...

Apoptosis is a form of non-lytic programmed cell death that is important as a driver of normal development, for cell population maintenance, and as a defense mechanism in immune reactions or in ...

Inducing programmed cell death (PCD), such as apoptosis, is a widely used therapeutic option for the treatment of cancer. Unfortunately, many cancer cells become resistant to PCDs, and continue ...

This news release is available in Japanese. Chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and the JST-ERATO Project have developed a new method to accomplish the ...