Apoptosis is triggered many different ways, but they all ultimately activate enzymes known as caspases that disrupt a cell’s DNA, organelles, and cytoskeleton. Caspases also recruit other cells to eat ...

Cancer cells even evade programmed cell death, despite the fact that their multiple abnormalities would normally make them prime targets for apoptosis. In the late stages of cancer, cells break ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

which is replicated and divvied up equally among daughter cells during cell division, the extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) found in some cancer cells is not always split evenly. Lacking centromeres, these ...

In multicellular organisms, the total number of cells is a balance ... is induced through apoptosis. A disruption of this delicate balance can lead to the development of cancer.

A new study has identified a potential new therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis that could shorten the length of treatment and ...