May 25, 2023
Researchers recreate the machine which cleans up the waste inside a cell
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: biotech/medical
Autophagy is the process by which cells break down waste and gunk inside them.
There’s a cleaning process happening in our bodies daily. Derived from Greek, the process is called autophagy, which means self-eating.
It plays a vital role in immunity and host defense. In the human body, self-eating is the process by which our cells break down, remove abnormal proteins and old waste macromolecules and organelles in its cytoplasm, and kill invading microorganisms.