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Apoptosis is one of the fundamental processes that could be the key to treating certain diseases. If you know that cells can commit suicide, wouldn't there be a time when you'd want to trick cells into doing so, as in the case of cancer? And maybe there's a time when you'd take dying cells and turn off apoptosis, so that the cells could become immortal and you could revitalize damaged tissues, as in your knee cartilage.

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