A recent study published in Engineering has shed light on the potential therapeutic effects of dihydrotanshinone I (DHT), a ...

In a groundbreaking first for nutrition science, researchers have published pilot clinical trial data showing that the 5-day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) was associated with increased activity of the ...

A new study unravels the relationship between mitofusins (mitochondrial proteins) and autophagy. Using gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9, the team has been able to study these proteins without altering ...

Autophagy is the cellular equivalent of a housekeeping system. When operating correctly, it eliminates damaged proteins, ...

A hidden cellular cleanup system may hold the key to healthier tear glands—and new hope for treating dry eye disease.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discoveries on a process whereby cells essentially eat themselves. The process is called ...

In 2018, Sonali Bendre was diagnosed with stage four metastatic cancer, one that breaks away from the source and spreads to other parts of the body. When she announced it on social media, the actor ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

Dry eye disease affects millions of people, causing burning, redness, and constant eye fatigue that can worsen over time. Scientists now believe the problem may begin deep inside tear glands, where a ...