Tag: cell death

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread worldwide, the rapid development and rollout of vaccines against its causative pathogen – the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – has raised hopes for many worldwide that a return to ‘normality’ may be on the horizon. New drugs have also been urgently sought to mitigate

Researchers from Uppsala University show in a new study that inhibition of the protein EZH2 can reduce the growth of cancer cells in the blood cancer multiple myeloma. The reduction is caused by changes in the cancer cells' metabolism. These changes can be used as markers to discriminate whether a patient would respond to treatment

Cells in our bodies die all the time, and now we know just how fast. Scientists found that death travels in unremitting waves through a cell, moving at a rate of 30 micrometers (one-thousandth of an inch) every minute, they report in a new study published Aug. 10 in the journal Science. That means, for