Palmira L??pez-Fresno of STIGA in Barcelona is working with Fernando Fern??ndez-Gonz??lez of the Hospital Central de Asturias in Oviedo to demonstrate how a process analogous to apoptosis, or programmed cell death, could help companies, and organisations, such as hospitals, removed malfunctioning or ineffective parts of their business and operations and so prevent the spread of commercial decay