A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to cancer cells: they push them toward self-destruction instead of survival. Rather ...

In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon. In cancer, dangerous cells don't die soon enough. That's because both diseases alter the way cells decide when to end their lives, a process called programmed ...