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In prior studies, the researchers demonstrated the efficacy of alpha-santalol in suppressing growth and inducing apoptotic cell death in cultured human prostate cancer cells.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

“They figured out which apoptotic pathways are involved,” Hinz says.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2017

Wijeyesakere, S. J., Bedi, S. K., Huynh, D. & Raghavan, M. The C-terminal acidic region of calreticulin mediates phosphatidylserine binding and apoptotic cell phagocytosis.

From Nature • Nov. 5, 2017

“There are many disorders in which there is too little apoptotic death,” Dr. Horvitz said, “and in those cases it is activating apoptosis that could increase longevity.”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

The fact that the same protein regulates seemingly opposite processes of apoptotic fission during cell death and mitotic fission during cell proliferation may seem surprising.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2012