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Genesis of apoptosis
EDITOR, - John Goldman's review of the BBC2 Horizon programme "Death Wish" salutes Andrew Wyllie and Alastair Currie for the discovery of apoptosis or programmed cell death but makes no mention of John Kerr of Brisbane.1 The original article on apoptosis, published in the British Journal of Cancer in 1972, was written by Kerr and Wyllie and Currie.2 Kerr had initially described this process of cell death and called it shrinkage necrosis on morphological grounds.3,4 He appreciated that it could be initiated by a range of noxious agents as well as occurring in both pathological and physiological processes. The 1972 paper builds on his earlier work.
Alastair Currie met John Kerr in Brisbane while Currie was at the University of Queensland as a visiting professor. He became interested in Kerr's observations and invited him to spend a sabbatical period with him in Aberdeen. Back in Aberdeen, Currie also invited Andrew
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