Discoveries

Klionsky and colleagues publish new autophagy findings in Nature

February 28, 2008 - LSI faculty member Daniel J. Klionsky and research partners have published a new paper titled "Autophagy fights disease through cellular self-digestion" in the most recent edition of Nature.

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Potential therapeutic applications of autophagy

April 2007 - LSI faculty Jason E. Gestwicki and Daniel J. Klionsky discuss their research in the recent issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discoveries.

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Constructing a new cell structure featured on the cover of the Dec. 18 Journal of Cell Biology

Daniel Klionsky's lab at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute has come close to figuring out how specialized parts of cells make housekeeping their habit in the cover story of the current Journal of Cell Biology...

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Klionsky's research published in Nature

June 16, 2006 - LSI research professor Dan Klionsky discusses the role of autophagy ('self-eating') in protecting against neurodegenerative diseases in this week's Nature News & Views.

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Daniel Klionsky's Research Featured on Cover of Science Magazine

Nov. 4, 2004 - LSI Research Professor Daniel Klionsky and postdoctoral fellow Takahiro Shintani were featured in the Nov. 4 issue of Science. Their work concentrates on autophagy (self-eating) in yeast.

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