Stories by John Ding-E Young

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...

December 1, 1996 — Richard C. Duke, David M. Ojcius and John Ding-E Young

Health

How Killer Cells Kill

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...

January 1, 1988 — John Ding-E Young and Zanvil A. Cohn