Death on the beach: a rosy forecast for the 21st century.

Discusses several research presented at the Third European Workshop on Cell Death, which was held on February 23-28, 2002 in Salobrena, Spain. Biology and novel signaling of the tumor necrosis factor ligand family; Regulation of cell death; Sensitization of tumor cells to apoptosis; Apoptosis in the nervous and immune systems; Role of caspase and non-caspase proteases in apoptosis.