Though scientists don’t yet know much about it, a newly described process called erebosis might have profound implications for how the gut maintains itself.

A new study reports that human colon cancer cells at imminent risk of death can instead develop characteristics needed to colonize new parts of the body.

The Salk professor developed the institute’s first neurobiology lab and used it to develop cell lines, describe amyloid β toxicity, and screen for compounds that protect against neurodegeneration.

Drugs targeting patients’ immune systems, rather than the virus itself, could be key to recovery from severe cases of the disease, some researchers suggest.

Introducing either necroptotic cells or an enzyme that triggers necroptosis can wipe out cancer.

Telomeres in cancer cells exposed to oxidative stress got shorter and stickier.

Internalizing the environment might be the next step in humans’ relationship with our planet.

Apoptosis and other types of programmed cell death appear to be reversible.

Molecular programs can rescue cells already engaged in the process of apoptosis or other forms of programmed cell death.

Researchers identify antibacterial functions of cell death in Arabidopsis when the plant is infected with Pseudomonas.  

The biologist earned a Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on C. elegans.

M proteins from Streptococcus bacteria selectively kill mouse macrophages and human macrophage-like cells by prompting cell death.

Drug-delivering nanoparticles designed to glow when their target cells die can report on the effectiveness of cancer therapies within just a few hours of treatment, a mouse study shows.

Much of the CD4+ T-cell death that occurs during HIV infection may be caused by direct delivery of the virus from neighboring cells, a study shows.

Support cells in the inner ear respond differently to two drugs that kill hair cells.

Self digestion thwarts self destruction.  

A drug tested in mice causes tumor cells to explode.  

A head-to-tail wave of blue fluorescence signals the death of a nematode worm.