Assertion: apoptosis | /r/HasProperty | hot topic
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Although apoptosis is often described as a "hot topic" or a "new and exploding" area of biological research, the concept of cell death as a normal cell fate was articulated only three years after Schleiden and Schwann introduced the Cell Theory when, in 1874, Vogt described natural cell death as an integral part of toad development (Cotter and Curtin, 2003).