LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) is a specialized process for degrading dead cells, microbes or other particles. It plays a role in innate immunity, inflammation regulation and anticancer responses.

A lipidologist is a doctor who studies fatty substances called lipids in your blood and looks for ways to manage or treat conditions linked to them. Lipids are useful for making cells and storing fat.

To satisfy the incessant energy demands of their thousands of synapses, neurons have to have enormous supplies of ATP at the ready. Where does this seemingly bottomless well of energy come from? It’s ...