Autophagy, the little-understood method by which human cells dispose of harmful waste and unwelcome intruders, may one day be central to therapies for longer, healthier living, experts said.
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Some people are drawn to the flashy and popular, but Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi isn't one of them.
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Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how cells break down and recycle content, a garbage disposal system that scientists hope to harness in the fight against cancer, ...
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Melanoma is one of the types of cancer that poses the greatest challenge to researchers because it manifests in many ways, it contains a large number of mutations and displays high metastatic capacity. To date, clinicians ...
Sep 7, 2016
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Coronary artery disease, the number one killer world-wide, restricts and ultimately blocks blood vessels, and cuts off oxygen supply to the heart. A study published on August 11 in the open access journal PLOS Biology reports ...
Aug 11, 2016
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We don't tend to wrap our recycling waste in bubble wrap but that's essentially what cells do during the cellular recycling process called autophagy. Using the live imaging capabilities at the Babraham Institute, Institute ...
Aug 11, 2016
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By triggering a process called autophagy—in which cells literally engulf their own insides —researchers from Drexel University and Yale University were able to decrease lung injury in mice that were exposed to high concentrations ...
Jul 19, 2016
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Dietary restriction, or limited food intake without malnutrition, has beneficial effects on longevity in many species, including humans. A new study from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), published ...
Jul 14, 2016
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In order to live, it is necessary for creatures not only to synthesize essential components, but also degrade harmful or superfluous components. Autophagy, an intracellular degradation system conserved among eukaryotes from ...
Jul 11, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that inhibiting autophagy, a self-devouring process used by cells to degrade large intra-cellular cargo, effectively blocks tumor cell migration and breast cancer metastasis ...
May 12, 2016
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