Autophagy is a conserved cellular clearance pathway that supports homeostasis by removing damaged or superfluous intracellular components. Within microglia, autophagy is emerging as a regulator of key...

Autophagy is a pathway that removes damaged or superfluous cellular components. Palmer et al. show that microglial upregulation of BIN1, which is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disea...

Please tell us who you are, your institution and your title Kia ora, ko Jenni tōku ingoa. I'm Jenni, I'm from Whangaparāoa (North of Auckland) and I'm now based at the University of Cambridge, ...

In this review, Karpova et al. summarize and discuss the current understanding of how neurons have adopted autophagy to serve the needs of very long-living and highly polarized cells with thousands of...

This review discusses the links between the autophagy pathway, aging, and age-associated neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neuron, and Huntington’s diseases. The authors highlight t...