Suicidal Cells Rescued as Apoptosis Therapy Looms

摘要

Apoptosis lives. The only new papers in the latest Hot Biology list both identify a crucial step in the cascade of programmed cell death. Furthermore, those two papers, both published last year, ranked at #1 and #2 in the previous issue's study of 1997s Red Hot Research Papers (see Science Watch, 9[2]:1-2, March/April 1997). In a noteworthy achievement, two other papers from the same issue of Science also ranked among 1997's most-cited reports. That's four consecutive papers from one issue of one journal on one subject.