Programmed cell death and the immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 333 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2016.153 Authors: Shigekazu Nagata & Masato Tanaka More than 50 years ago, cells were observed to die during insect development via a process that was named 'programmed cell death'. Later, a similar cell death process was found to occur in humans, and the process was renamed 'apoptosis'. In the 1990s, a number
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