AUTOPHAGY IS A hot topic on TikTok, with videos tagged #autophagy racking up nearly 35 million views. People are likely talking so much about autophagy because the subject is closely linked to the ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and degrading worn-out or dysfunctional components. Serving as an essential ...

In a groundbreaking first for nutrition science, researchers have published pilot clinical trial data showing that the 5-day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) was associated with increased activity of the ...

Neurodegeneration in brain cells may be happening when the natural cellular cleaning process malfunctions due to falling levels of a niacin-related coenzyme and leaves cells starved of energy, new ...

Scientists at SAHMRI can do it with a blood test – and are working on ways to wind back the clock. The test examines how well the cells are keeping house, cleaning up debris and recycling waste, which ...

T. Yorimitsu et al., "Endoplasmic reticulum stress triggers autophagy," J Bio Chem, 281:30299-304, 2006. (Cited in 48 papers) University of Michigan biologist Daniel Klionsky and a group of ...