Cell death in photoreceptor cells is reversible, study finds

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...
Business Wire

BAKX Raises $25 Million to Develop Therapeutics Targeting Pro-Apoptotic Proteins and Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAKX Therapeutics today announced it closed $25 million in a Series A fundraising led by AB Magnitude Ventures Group with Ipsen Pharma SA and Sherpa Healthcare Partners. The ...
Utrecht University

PhD Defense: The hunt for a new guardian of the genome

How cancer cells die from chemotherapy: a new pathway. We have been treating cancer by damaging the DNA of tumor cells for over a hundred years, for example with radiation and che ...
News Medical

Kinetic quantification of apoptosis using Incucyte® live-cell imaging assays

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a tightly regulated biological process necessary for normal tissue maintenance and development. However, aberrations in apoptotic signaling networks are ...