Intermittent fasting has gone from being a trend to a practice adopted by many people looking to improve their health, control their weight, or simply feel better. But beyond meal schedules, there's a ...

Autophagy, which declines with age, may hold more mysteries than researchers previously suspected. Scientists have now uncovered possible novel functions for various autophagy genes, which may control ...

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

During periods of fasting, the human body begins to consume its own damaged cells Dr Yoshinori Ohsumi: His pioneering yeast experiments revealed autophagy’s core genes and mechanisms, showing how ...

Bollywood actress and cancer survivor, Sonali Bendre, has inadvertently ignited a major controversy following a social media post where she credited Autophagy, a natural healing process, for her ...

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 ...

Nutrient deprivation inhibits mTORC1 and activates AMPK, which then dephosphorylates or phosphorylates ULK1 at different sites, leading to the activation of the ULK complex and initiation of the ...