Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered

Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a dance of proteins that protects certain cells from undergoing apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death. Understanding the fine points of apoptosis is important to researchers seeking ways to control this process. In a series of experiments, St. Jude researchers found that if any one of three molecules is missing, certain cells lose the ability to protect themselves from apoptosis. A report on this work appears in the advance online publication of Nature.

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I for one....

[bytta]

I for one welcome our dancing protein overlords.

Immunization?

[headkase]

So can I be exposed to these three molecules in such a way that my immune system makes antibodies for them? Would be nice to be immunized against death.