Eukaryotic cells cope with starving conditions by eating their own components, a process called autophagy. Aa Aa Aa Normally, when you are hungry you look for something to eat, but have you ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

For example, you might eat dinner at 7 PM and then not eat again until 7 PM the next day. Autophagy is a natural process in your body that cleanses old, damaged cells and recycles their parts to ...