Meanwhile, Japan's Astellas Pharma is in early human trials of another approach to stimulate cancer-cell suicide.
Genasense, which is used in combination with chemotherapy, works by targeting a key "cell suicide" gene called bcl-2 and then inducing cancer cells to kill themselves.
Another very promising cell-suicide inducing drug is called YM155, which is being developed by Astellas Pharma.
The fact that a dying cancer cell sends out suicide signals to other cells has been dubbed the bystander effect.
Magistrates remanded Mr Murphy to Swansea Prison where he was placed in a single cell and not put on suicide watch.
The morning he was found hanged, Mr Balogan was moved to a safe cell because he was considered a suicide risk.
In 1946, Hermann Goering, the Nazi leader and one of Hitler's most loyal supporters, committed suicide in his prison cell just before he was due to be executed.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has reported that Zygier was a Mossad intelligence service agent who hanged himself in a supposedly suicide-proof solitary confinement cell.
Court documents say he attempted suicide in his Utah jail cell.
The "Lady in the Lake" killer found dead in his cell had previously seen a report into the prison suicide of Harold Shipman, an inquest has heard.
It said his cell was fitted with surveillance cameras designed to prevent incidents such as suicide.
Ram Singh, 33 years old, was found dead in his cell at Tihar Jail early Monday in what police and prison authorities said was suicide by hanging.
The psychiatrists did not put him in the highest risk category for suicide and ordered for him to be monitored at least every half hour by cameras in his cell.
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