Thursday January 21, 2010
Inducing Controlled Suicide in Human Cells
Ehud Rattner
The Future Of Things
Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, have recently designed a new tool to study rescue signaling pathways and cell apoptosis. Their development might help scientists to better understand the phenomenon of cells' excessive accumulation of errors in the proteins they produce, preventing a process which is practically cells' suicide.
When cells accumulate excessive errors in the proteins they produce, apoptosis is activated; however, beforehand the cells attempt to rectify the problem through a number of rescue responses.
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