Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria - it changes with age, and researchers now see that faltering maintenance as one of aging’s deeper biological engines
Researchers are increasingly viewing mitophagy—the cellular process of recycling damaged mitochondria—as a fundamental driver of biological aging. When this maintenance system falters, damaged organelles accumulate and accelerate the aging process.
Why it matters
Understanding the biological mechanisms of aging could lead to new therapeutic interventions for age-related diseases and longevity research.
Inside every one of your cells, a housekeeping crew called mitophagy hunts down mitochondria that have gone bad — swollen, leaky, or spitting out damaged signals — and delivers them to the cell’s recycling system.
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