1 This wasn’t completely unprecedented: after all, scientists had long known about phagocytosis, a form of “cell cannibalism” where immune cells destroy damaged cells by chewing them up. But what the ...

“I didn’t want to lose my leg, because it was, like, eating my bone ... told her he believed she had a “very big” giant cell tumor. “He said, ‘Yeah, it’s pretty rare, but when ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy – a study into how cells detoxify and repair themselves.

Neurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough ... molecular profiling to distinguish between different cell types in the brains of mice. In the dorsal raphe ...

The cell shrinks and dissolves into discrete packages called apoptotic bodies, which are later consumed by cell-eating immune cells called phagocytes ... they haven’t shown them disappearing in ...

Using an electron microscope, a cell eating the protein that was contained in the cell ... It had become possible to observe when, where and how autophagy is occurring in real-time. In the PRESTO ...

Neurons found in one of the oldest regions of the brain may control when we stop eating a meal, new research in mice hints.

By Chris SimmsNeurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough food – and since people probably have the same cells, we might one day manipulate them to help treat ...