American podcaster Lex Fridman fasted for 45 hours to interview PM Modi. When you fast for 45 hours, there are changes in the ...

What do cells do when they are “hungry”? Eukaryotic cells cope with starving conditions by eating their own components, a process called autophagy. Aa Aa Aa Normally, when you are hungry you ...

While some dismiss intermittent fasting as a passing fad, advocates argue it is a powerful tool for improving overall health.

This process, called autophagy from the Greek words for “self” and “eating,” represents one of the most promising frontiers in longevity research and may hold keys to preventing everything ...

In brief, autophagy is a ubiquitous process in eukaryotic cells that results in the breakdown of cytoplasm within the lysosome in response to stress conditions and that allows the cell to adapt to ...

Studies suggest that fasting may lower blood pressure, reduce bad cholesterol (LDL), and decrease inflammation, all of which ...

The autophagy process degrades and recycles malformed proteins or worn-out organelles using lysosomal machinery. In the past, autophagy has been shown to act only as an adaptive response to extreme ...

Daniela Hernandez extends her health and science reporting to cover a variety of relevant subjects from Covid-19 to climate change.

“Within these cytolysomes remarkable events are in progress . . .” he and his colleague Edward Essner wrote in 1962. 2 “Cytoplasm has somehow found its way inside the droplets and is apparently in the ...