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Cell Suicide in Health and Disease
Cells can—and often do—kill themselves, in a process known as apoptosis. This capacity is essential to the proper functioning of the body; flawed regulation may lie behind many diseases...
Cells can—and often do—kill themselves, in a process known as apoptosis. This capacity is essential to the proper functioning of the body; flawed regulation may lie behind many diseases...
These immune-system cells recognize a target, close in on it and bind tightly to it. Then they secrete onto its surface a lethal pore-forming protein that causes the target cell to leak and die...
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