Andrea Ballabio, founder of TIGEM, has received the 2025 Beth Levine Prize for his pioneering research on lysosomes and autophagy. His work, largely conducted at TIGEM, has led to new insights ...

Autophagy is the body’s way of cleaning out damaged cells, in order to regenerate newer, healthier cells. It allows your body to remove the dysfunctional cells.

Autophagy articles from across Nature Portfolio Autophagy is a process by which cellular material is degraded by lysosomes or vacuoles and recycled. Several autophagy pathways operate within a ...