Inducing eye-tumor cells to self-destruct

From Washington, D.C., at a seminar on Research to Prevent Blindness

When their usefulness has ended, most cells succumb to a natural process of programmed cell death called apoptosis. The cells break up and their constituents are recycled.

In contrast, tumor cells don’t know when to die, thereby exacerbating the uncontrolled growth of malignancies.