A quarter century of Apoptosis

Programmed cell death lives

“…We, as editors of Apoptosis are in service as of 2016 and we are determined to improve the quality of the journal. Over the last years we celebrated adulthood [ 1 ] and the quarter-century anniversary of Apoptosis [ 2 ]. We will continue to maintain the rigorous, fair and fast peer-review process of submitted manuscripts.…”

“…Five years ago, we decided to select new cover art related to programmed cell death for every volume of Apoptosis [ 1 ]. Last year’s cover was adorned with an image from a paper of co-Editor-in-Chief Dr. Nowak-Sliwinska on the process of spindle pole clustering [ 2 , 3 ]. For the coming year we selected an image from the best-cited 2021 original research paper published in Apoptosis [ 4 ].…”