by Melissa Lee Phillips
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	Alternate cell-death program identified Email: Melissa Lee Phillips - mlp@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050531-01 Published   31 May 2005

Although research over the past decade has shown that apoptosis is likely not the only type of programmed cell death, little is known about what other mechanisms may look like. In this week's onlineNature Chemical Biology, Junying Yuan at Harvard University and her colleagues reveal such a pathway by identifying a chemical that blocks nonapoptotic programmed cell death, both in vitro and in a mouse model of ischemic brain injury.

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