In multicellular organisms, the total number of cells is a balance between the cell-generating effects of mitosis and cell death that is induced through apoptosis. A disruption of this delicate ...

Autophagy-induced cytoprotection is the result of the basic cellular functions of autophagy in eukaryotic cells on the one hand, and the inhibitory effects that autophagy exerts on apoptosis under ...

Danés, principal investigator of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Lab at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has shown ...