What Is Autophagy? Imagine if every night, while you slept, a team of cleaners came through your home—sorting, recycling, and hauling away the junk that’s built up during the day. Inside your body, something remarkably similar happens at the cellular level. This process is called autophagy, from the Greek auto (“self”) and phagein (“to eat”)—literally, “self-eating.” While it may sound […]
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