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Cancer treatments like chemotherapy kill tumor cells, for example, by pushing them to self-destruct, shrivel up and quietly die in a process called apoptosis, or less commonly, by triggering a more explosive form of cell death called necroptosis. But what happens to those cancer cells after they've been slain? When cancer cells meet their demise, their membranes usually become compromised , as occurs in apoptosis , a form of programmed cell death that removes unneeded or damaged cells from the body. Once the molecular switches that trigger apoptosis are flipped "on," the dying cell shrinks and bits of its membrane break away in "blebs." This causes the cells' internal components to leak out and attract phagocytes, or immune cells responsible for ingesting cellular debris. The summoned phagocytes engulf the dead cancer cells and then break them down into smaller components, such as sugars and nucleic acids, chain-like molecules found in DNA. Via this pr...

Jeremiah Green, the founding drummer for the rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced he had been diagnosed with cancer NEW YORK -- Jeremiah Green, the founding drummer for the rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced he had been diagnosed with cancer . He was 45. "Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah. He laid down to rest and simply faded out," according to a statement posted Saturday on the band's social media accounts. “Please appreciate all the love you give, get, have given, and will get. Above all, Jeremiah was about love.” Green was barely in his teens when he joined the newly formed Modest Mouse, which featured singer-guitarist Isaac Brock and bassist Eric Judy among others. Modest Mouse was originally based in the Seattle suburb Issaquah and later relocated to Portland. Its name originates from a passage by Virginia Woolf, who once described everyday individuals as “modest mouse-coloured people." Influ...