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The cell's dilemma, or the story of cell death: an entertainment in three acts

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Cells. They assemble, thrive, and cooperate to compose an organism, simple or complex. And like any living thing, they die. They die by catastrophe, they become sabotaged by condition, or they remove themselves on command from within or without. Each small life is followed by a death, to the benefit or the harm of the whole. Our story, here, is not of how each quietus occurs, but instead, of our ongoing effort to understand these tiny demises, to manipulate them, and to some day control them.

Source: FEBS Journal

DOI: 10.1111/febs.13658

Author: Douglas R. Green

Institution: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Cell death mechanisms and regulation

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Award: G5803336354