Emerging Research in Cell Death and Differentiation

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce a call for submissions to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences on the topic of Emerging Research in Cell Death and Differentiation. Despite its late onset as a biomedical research area, cell death is now a field in continuous development. The latest recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death (NCCD) are dated 2018 (Galluzzi et al., 2018). More recently, other authors have proposed a simple classification system, where the cell death entities are primarily categorized into programmed cell death (PCD) or non‑PCD (necrosis) based on their signal dependency (Yan et al., 2020). Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of both positive and negative regulation of PCD is the mainstay to develop treatments for several diseases, including cancer and neurodegeneration.

A more irregular form of death is typically described as differentiation (as in the case of keratinocytes) and exemplifies how cell death is not only essential for the renewal of tissues, but also for direct protection from the outside world and pathogens.

We encourage the submission of both original research articles and topical reviews tackling all aspects of cell death and differentiation, as well as addressing what lies ahead regarding technologies and methods.

Prof. Dr. Roberta Di Pietro
Prof. Dr. Sandra Marmiroli
Guest Editors

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