Sentences with phrase «natural process of cell death»

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Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is a natural process that kills billions of cells in a typical human body each day.

Jon Tilly, the director of the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has been studying genetically altered mice to better understand the process of apoptosis, or natural cell death.

Apoptosis is often called «programmed cell death,» where cancer tumor cells die because of a natural process in the body.