Bøger af Luke Foster

Mother's Love is a series of essays about social issues. I say that my readers know my essays are good for them like broccoli, but the jokes throughout are sort of the cream cheese that makes the essays tasty. I started writing them in 2014 and then picked up where I left off in 2021. Some of the best essays were written while travelling to Brooklyn in New York in 2021. The other more notable essays were written after long beach walks where I would empty my mind out so when I started writing I would only have a heading in mind and then let the rest flow directly out of my subconscious. I often say that my life is sort of a circus that my essays are based on but the Dalai Lama says circuses are fun.

The total number of cells in every multicellular organism is fundamentally fixed to a specific range. A type of programmed cell death happens in such organisms to effectively control the number of cells. This programmed cell death is called apoptosis. Characteristic cell changes and eventually death happens in cells due to certain biochemical events. It is a carefully controlled, energy-dependent process. An average adult human loses between 50 and 70 billion cells each day due to apoptosis, and an average human child loses about 20 to 30 billion cells. Apoptosis can be pathogenic when the death of healthy neurons leads to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. This book contains some path-breaking studies in the field of apoptotic cell biology. It outlines the processes and mechanisms of apoptotic cells in detail. Researchers and students in this field will be greatly assisted by this book.