Dying to live. Cell death as a regulatory process

FAVRE, C; SABORIDO, C; CAMPERO, M.B.

THEORIA

Servicio Editorial De La Universidad Del Pais Vasco

Año: 2020

0495-4548

Usually, the organization of living systems is explained by appealing to an intrinsic purpose that is based on the biological survival. However, paradigmatically, it is inevitable to observe that the final destiny of all living organisms is death. In this work, we defend that, from an organizational approach, there is a form of death -Regulated Cell Death- that, far from being a mere «absence of life», is a process of biological regulation and a feature of self-maintenance in multicellular organisms.