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  • Anti-ageing drug rapamycin improves immune function through endolysosomes

    Rapamycin is considered a promising anti-ageing drug that improves health in old age and alleviates the age-related decline in immune function. A research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing has discovered in fruit flies that rapamycin activates the so-called endolysosomes, which more

  • Parkinson’s disease: When the Cellular Waste Collector Doesn’t Show Up

    NEMO, a protein that is primarily associated with signaling processes in the immune system, prevents the deposition of protein aggregates that occur in Parkinson’s disease. For this purpose, it binds to certain protein chains that serve as markers for cellular waste removal, thus promoting the degra more

  • Leukemia cells activate cellular recycling program

    To speed up their growth, leukemia cells typically activate the recycling of cellular structures – enabling them to dispose of defective components and better supply themselves with building materials. Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have now shown that leukemia cells with a very common m more

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016

In 2016 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy. more

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Autophagy

Autophagy In cell biology , autophagy, or autophagocytosis, is a catabolic process involving the degradation of a cell's own components through the lysosomal machinery. It is a tightly regulated process which plays a normal part in cell growth ... more

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