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 ...

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, ...

Cell death research has emerged as a cornerstone for understanding the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. Neurons and glial cells in the central ...

University of Pittsburgh scientists are unlocking the complexities of a recently discovered cell death process that plays a key role in health and disease, and new findings link their discovery to ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein linked to cell death is secretly driving the aging of blood stem cells in a ...

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 ...

Necrotic cell death is a fundamental biological process, yet the terminal execution mechanisms of necrosis are still not ...

A KAIST research team has identified the real reason why anticancer drugs kill cancer cells—targeted anticancer therapies do ...

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 ...

Every drop of blood in the human body traces back to a small reserve of stem cells buried inside bone marrow. These ...

A breakthrough discovery by scientists at India's CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has revealed that human cells possess an intrinsic ability to revive from near-death states.