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Scientists can reverse brain aging in fruit flies by preventing buildup of a common protein
Damaged or superfluous proteins and other components inside a cell are broken down in a process called "autophagy." Aging research has established that autophagy pathways become less active with ...
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The Discovery of Lysosomes and Autophagy
What do cells do when they are “hungry”? Eukaryotic cells cope with starving conditions by eating their own components, a process called autophagy. Aa Aa Aa Normally, when you are hungry you ...
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Autophagy: from phenomenology to molecular understanding in less than a decade
In 2000, it was suggested to me that “Autophagy will be the wave of the future; it will become the new apoptosis.” Few people would have agreed at the time, but this statement turned out to be ...