Sentences with phrase «for cellular housekeeping»
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MicroRNAs had been discovered in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans nearly a decade before, but for years most people thought they were junky byproducts of cellular housekeeping.
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In 2011, UT Southwestern researchers in Dr. Levine's laboratory identified the protein Smurf1 as important for the elimination of viruses and damaged mitochondria from cells via a cellular housekeeping process called autophagy.
The prize was for his work on autophagy, a kind of cellular housekeeping that helps clear the cell of damaged proteins and other potentially toxic debris.