is involved in selective autophagy of dysfunctional mitochondria. Recessive mutations in the PINK1 gene are associated with cases of familial Parkinson disease (PD), so this research provides ...

A Dundee academic has been awarded a prestigious national prize for his work on neurodegenerative diseases, including ...

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 ...

The process by which cells eliminate waste and recycle valuable materials, known as autophagy, is vital for health. In conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, the accumulation ...

The study also adds to growing research that links oxidative stress—when harmful molecules like nitric oxide build up in the ...

In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries into the mechanisms of autophagy. These have led to a better understanding of diseases such as Parkinson's and ...

Josephine Thinwa shares her journey to becoming a physician scientist and how this led her to investigate the role of a neurologically important kinase in virus-induced autophagy. Just like people ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste.

In the mid-1950s, Sam Clark Jr. of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis looked through his electron microscope at newborn-mouse kidneys and spotted something he’d never seen ...