Researchers found that the body’s natural recycling system, the lysosome, plays a vital role in removing the protein that drives premature aging. When this system breaks down, aging speeds up. By ...

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare progeroid disorder, featured with premature skin wrinkling, lack of skin elasticity, absence of subcutaneous fat, alopecia, atherosclerosis and ...

New research, published today in the journal Science, shows how lysosomes - organelles that act like cells' waste disposal system - respond to stress by becoming abnormally bloated, a process called ...

Functioning brain cells need a functioning system for picking up the trash and sorting the recycling. But when the cellular sanitation machines responsible for those tasks, called lysosomes, break ...