Autophagy, which declines with age, may hold more mysteries than researchers previously suspected. Scientists have now uncovered possible novel functions for various autophagy genes, which may control ...

Autophagy leads to the lysosomal degradation of cytosolic components and organelles. The best understood role for autophagy is directing the removal of damaged or unwanted products. Autophagy can be ...

With the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his pioneering work in the early 1990s elucidating the genetic basis of the autophagic “self-eating” process, this ...

Our immune system has various ways to deal with threats from the outside like pathogens. One of the defence mechanisms is a process called autophagy. 'You can imagine autophagy as the vacuum cleaner ...

Researchers reveal how a nanomachine takes care of cleaning up inside the cell. To prevent our body's cells from overflowing with garbage and to keep them healthy, the waste inside them is constantly ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe X-linked myopathy characterised by progressive skeletal and cardiac muscle ...

Recycling takes place in our cells at all times: in a process called autophagy, cell components that are no longer needed are enclosed by membranes and broken down into their basic building blocks.

To prevent our body’s cells from overflowing with garbage and to keep them healthy, the waste inside them is constantly being disposed of. This cleaning process is called autophagy. Scientists have ...