The term 'autophagy' was chosen to distinguish the lysosomal degradation, or 'eating' (phagy), of part of the cell's self (auto) from the breakdown of extracellular material (heterophagy).

Apoptosis and autophagy constitute the two self-destructive processes by which supernumerary, damaged or aged cells and organelles are eliminated. Beyond this homeostatic function, autophagy is ...

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 ...

My first meal is at 2 p.m. And then I eat from 2 to 10 ... They found, scientifically, there’s a thing called "autophagy." Autophagy is when the cells in your body are rebuilding themselves.

A process known as ER-phagy ("ER-eating") plays a central role here ... They make contact with the autophagy machinery and direct it toward the membrane. The IDRs then condense into more compact ...

Recycling takes place in our cells at all times: in a process called autophagy, cell components that are no longer needed are enclosed by membranes and broken down into their basic building blocks.