A License to Kill

A License to Kill

Much of our knowledge of the basal mechanism underly-44 Lincoln's Inn Fields ing programmed cell death derives from the elegant London WC2A 3PX studies of Horvitz and colleagues on developmental cell United Kingdom death in the developmentally deterministic nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. During development of Apoptosis is the descriptive name given to the process the hermaphrodite worm, ...

IFNγ: Issuing macrophages a license to kill

T cells tell macrophages when to start making the toxic soup of lysosomal enzymes, reactive oxygen species, and nitric oxide that destroys intracellular pathogens. In 1983, Carl Nathan proved that this start signal comes in the form of the secreted cytokine IFNgamma.

License to kill: IFN-λ regulates antifungal activity of neutrophils.

Interferon-λ mediates antifungal immunity by stimulating neutrophils to generate reactive oxygen species.

Imposition of virginity testing: a life-saver or a license to kill?

Little is known about medical and juridical (medicolegal) responses to sexual abuse in Palestinian society. Conventional wisdom posits that the actions of the medicolegal community help victims of sexual abuse and deter offenders. This study focuses on the prevailing practice of imposing a virginity test (IVT) on women in Palestinian society when questions of sexual abuse or perceived misconduc...

Multifetal pregnancy reduction in assisted reproductive technologies: a license to kill?