While radiation therapy is an effective tool to destroy cancer cells, a new study from Vanderbilt researchers suggests that ...

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 ...

Findings underpin the scientific rationale for Anavex’s targeted autophagy approach with orally administered blarcamesineConvergence of impaired ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of spermidine? The name is curious, but in recent years this natural substance has become the focus of numerous studies on longevity and healthy aging. This is not a passing fad, ...

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 ...

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.

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells break down and eliminate their own cellular waste is a promising treatment ...