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The Cellular Cleaning Program Autophagy Helps In Wound Healing

Self Sealing Wounds

Scientists at the University of Cologne have shown that the recycling program of cells, autophagy, leads to the fusion of several single cells into multinucleated cell units during wound healing. Their findings have been published in ‘The EMBO Journal’. A team led by Maria Leptin has shown in the fruit fly Drosophila that autophagy, a …

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Developing Age Combating Autophagy Boosting Therapies

Genes Reveal Clues On Longevity

In collaboration with Apollo Ventures biotech incubator that supports longevity research and treatments for age related disease, the biotech startup Samsara Therapeutics has finished seed financing. The biotech startup company will be focusing on biological mechanisms of autophagy, the cellular garbage removal system used to break down unwanted/damaged cellular compounds and recycle them; high levels …

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