Imaging studies reveal order in programmed cell death

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

In order to thrive, the human body orchestrates a mass suicide of about 10 billion potentially dangerous cells a day. New research takes a closer look at programmed cell death — called apoptosis — and finds order in this process, once thought to be an erratically timed, sudden collapse.

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