Autophagy is a self-preservation mechanism in which your body removes damaged or dysfunctional parts of cells in order to regenerate newer, healthier cells. “Auto” means self and “phagy” means eat. So ...

Autophagy (“self-eating”) is the process through which parts of the cell are degraded in the lysosome. Elucidation of the key genes essential for autophagy — originally identified in yeast — has led ...

You’ve probably spent most of your life unaware of autophagy, even though it’s a process that happens regularly in your body. The term became popular outside of biology textbooks only with the rise of ...

Three primary types of autophagy are macro and micro-autophagy, as well as chaperone-mediated autophagy. Macro-autophagy moves the cytoplasmic component to its lysosome using a double-membrane vesicle ...

A new study unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these proteins without altering ...

Autophagy is a critical cellular process that removes damaged organelles and recycles nutrients to maintain homeostasis. In cancer, autophagy plays a complex role, supporting tumor suppression and ...

Scientists from the laboratory of Dr. Natalia Kononenko at the CECAD Center of Excellence in Aging Research at the University of Cologne have found out that autophagy - the process of cellular ...

Autophagy is the major intracellular degradation route in mammalian cells. Systemic ablation of core autophagy-related (ATG) genes in mice leads to embryonic or perinatal lethality, and conditional ...

Autophagy is a natural process that occurs as your body clears out and replaces damaged cell parts with new ones. It occurs within your body at all times. It has been linked to a long list of ...

Proteins classically associated with autophagy regulate the speed of intracellular transport. Scientists from the laboratory of Dr. Natalia Kononenko at the CECAD Center of Excellence in Aging ...

Autophagy is a vital process in which the body’s cells “clean out” any unnecessary or damaged components. It may be possible to induce autophagy, but there may be associated risks. Researchers have ...