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 ...

If the stress becomes too great, the cell activates its self-destruct protocol: apoptosis. But the human body also has a survival mechanism — a process called autophagy, which literally means ...

More of these cells died through autophagy than by a cell death mechanism called apoptosis. When the scientists turned off autophagy in some of these cells, they found that their chromosomes became ...

Cold exposure might help prevent diseases and potentially even slow down aging at a cellular level. It’s like a tune-up for ...

Cataracts are a prevalent ocular condition characterized by a progressive decline in vision, ultimately leading to blindness.