Cellular Suicides: How Programmed Apoptosis Keeps You Alive

Every single day, between fifty and seventy billion cells in your body intentionally and quietly kill themselves. If this massive wave of microscopic suicide were to suddenly stop, you would develop lethal tumors within weeks. This is the paradoxical miracle of apoptosis. Apoptosis is the highly regulated process of programmed cell death. Unlike necrosis, where cells die violently from trauma an...