May 1, 2019--(BRONX, NY)--Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., cell biologist and internationally recognized expert on the cellular process autophagy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences ...

Aug. 12 -- MONDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- An experiment that improved the natural cellular garbage-disposal system in mice made old liver cells act young again. And the same rejuvenating effect ...

Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says. The researchers, led by Associate Professor Ana Maria Cuervo, blocked the ageing process ...

The results of research headed by a team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine suggest that revving up a cellular housekeeping process that slows down as we age may protect against atherosclerosis.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have designed an experimental drug that reversed key symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The drug works by reinvigorating a cellular cleaning ...

Recycling for the health of our planet is well understood. But recycling to keep our bodies going? Scientists are finding that the recycling that takes place within the body’s trillions of cells every ...

Autophagy functions in numerous critical ways, including in quality control, cell remodeling, and energy production. Understanding the molecular pathways of autophagy can result in understanding and ...

Revving up a process that slows down as we age may protect against atherosclerosis, a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. In findings published online today in Proceedings of the National ...

Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., discusses her new research on Huntington's disease. Dr. Cuervo is professor of developmental and molecular biology, of anatomy and structural biology, and of medicine at ...

How does a nice (that is, soluble and relatively unstructured) protein like tau end up rigidly locked into paired helical filaments and neurofibrillary tangles? For tau mutants, the process could ...

Researchers have discovered how the most common genetic mutations in familial Parkinson’s disease damage brain cells. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...

A glitch in the mechanism by which cells recycle damaged components may trigger Parkinson's disease, according to a new study. The research could lead to new strategies for treating Parkinson's and ...