Laboratory techniques for detecting this process include trypan blue exclusion and the TUNEL assay.  It can be induced by binding of the FAS ligand, which activates proteins like Bax and Bid of the Bcl-2 family, and another important inducer of it is SMAC.  Its effector enzymes can be known as Ced's, reflecting the elucidation of this process in C. elegans, but in humans, 
Laboratory techniques for detecting this process include trypan blue exclusion and the TUNEL assay.  It can be induced by binding of the FAS ligand, which activates proteins like Bax and Bid of the Bcl-2 family, and another important inducer of it is SMAC.  Its effector enzymes can be known as Ced's, reflecting the elucidation of this process in C. elegans, but in humans, release of cytochrome c from the mitochondria activates the caspases, which are powerful proteases. When damage is detected, p53 normally triggers this process, which includes chromatin condensation and blebbing before the cell is phagocytized.  FTP name this process of programmed cell death.
Laboratory techniques for detecting this process include trypan blue exclusion and the TUNEL assay.  
apoptosis [prompt on 'programmed cell death' before it is read]