Apoptosis


Photographs, 2015.

The term apoptosis was adopted in the last century by geneticists to describe the process of senescence, or programmed cell death. It comes from the Greek for “falling off”—the cyclic loss of leaves and petals—but its use in a medical context isn’t new: texts by Hippocrates and Galen refer to the apoptosis of bones and scabs…

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