The progression from a normal cell to a fully malignant cancer cell involves a number of steps that result in the selection for poorly regulated self-renewal, deregulated proliferation, successful ...

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

Pyroptosis is programmed lytic cell death caused by the cleavage of gasdermin D by caspases 1, 4, 5 and 11. Recent work suggests that pyroptosis defends against infection by vacuolar or ...