Sentences with phrase «degraded cellular components»

However, your body uses autophagy to deal with that response to maintain energy, reduce the need for external energy, and remove degraded cellular components.

These nanomachines synthesize and degrade cellular components and generate energy.

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This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Center, for his work on autophagy, the process in which cells degrade and recycle cellular components.