Nature Cell Biology
5, 1035 - 1038 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ncb1203-1035
There is an Erratum (January 2004) associated with this Meeting Report.
Programmed cell death: Superman meets Dr DeathPascal Meier1
& John Silke21
Pascal Meier is at The Breakthrough Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Building, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK. 2
John Silke is at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia.
Correspondence should be addressed to Pascal Meier pmeier@icr.ac.uk or John Silke silke@wehi.edu.auThis year's Cold Spring Harbor meeting on programmed cell death (September 17−21, 2003), organised by Craig Thompson and Junying Yuan, was proof that the 'golden age' of research in this field is far from over. There was a flurry of fascinating insights into the regulation of diverse apoptotic pathways and unexpected non-apoptotic roles for some of the key apoptotic regulators and effectors. In addition to their role in cell death, components of the apoptotic molecular machinery are now known to also function in a variety of essential cellular processes, such as regulating glucose homeostasis, lipid metabolism, cell proliferation and differentiation.
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