Ageing is widely believed to be a non-adaptive process that results from a decline in the force of natural selection. However, recent studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are consistent with the ...
Apoptosis is a form of non-lytic programmed cell death that is important as a driver of normal development, for cell population maintenance, and as a defense mechanism in immune reactions or in ...
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 ...