Spotlight on Cell Death

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Imbalance in the natural process of cell death in our bodies either wholly or partially causes over 50 different diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's and rheumatism. This knowledge has lead to research into cell death becoming the most intensive field of research in the world today.

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Live and Let Die

One million cells in your body die every second. That means in one day, approximately 1.2 kg of cells die. But it's nothing to worry about. Quite the opposite; it would be a real problem if the cells in your body did not die.
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Facts about Cell Death

The most common types of cell death, cell death diseases and glossary.
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Five major breakthroughs

Definitions, descriptions, identifications and discoveries of suppressor genes.
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Cells die in different ways in infants and adults

The neurons of small children are prepared to commit suicide via apoptosis if they are not used.
Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize Laureate 2016

In 2016 The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet decided to award the  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
Cell and Molecular Biology
05 Jul 2018 by Katarina Sternudd.