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 ...

Autophagy, derived from a Greek word, the "self-eating" nature refers to an interesting cellular process as part of the body's own recycling mechanism for cellular damage or components that have ...

Autophagy is a cellular degradation pathway for the clearance of damaged or superfluous proteins and organelles. The recycling of these intracellular constituents also serves as an alternative ...

Inside each of the trillions of cells that make up the human body, a sophisticated recycling and renewal system operates continuously, breaking down damaged components and regenerating healthy ones.

In 2016, "Autophagy" (*1) (Fig. 1) became famous when Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi of Tokyo Institute of Technology received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It is one of the intracellular ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, led by Dr. Helin Norberg and Dr. Erik Norberg, have identified a previously unknown mechanism that affects the ability of cancer cells to spread in the body.