Life-Saving Cures Emerge as Mysteries of Cell Death are Solved

Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease. Stroke, MS, and heart attack. These are the big, deadly diseases we can’t cure, and can hardly treat. They all involve untimely and mysterious deaths of cells that are the building blocks of critical bodily organs. But a rapidly expanding field of cell biology is revealing how these cells die, how they can be protected, and ways these diseases might be cured with medicines and diet. Already hints of cures are emerging as new findings overturn centuries of misunderstanding. For hundreds of years, scientists believed that cells just wear out, falling apart over time, like a favorite T-shirt. Biology doesn’t work that way — cells are carefully regulated, and if you can discern the inner workings of cells, you gain control over them. <a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/life-saving-cures-emerge-as-mysteries-of-cell-death-are-solved-24a06fac98bb">Read More</a>