Apoptosis is a tightly regulated multi-step ... images of a leukaemia cell and a cell undergoing classical apoptosis; note the condensed chromatin, the cell shrinkage and the fragmentation of ...

Insights into the molecular regulators of controlled cell death—apoptosis—have provided researchers with new strategies for treating several common disorders. Life cannot exist without death.

From early development to old age, cell death is a part of life. Without enough of a critical type of cell death known as ...