garbage disposal

Over time, however, this "garbage disposal" became overwhelmed by the protein aggregates, leading to cell death in the zebrafish retina.

The family watched closely as a translator showed them key features in their apartment: which knob matched which burner on the stovetop, how the garbage disposal and window blinds worked.

A paper out of UC Santa Barbara reveals a new connection between a particular ion transport protein and the cell's garbage disposal, which grinds up misfolded proteins to stave off their toxic accumulation.

The typical job of the proteasome, the garbage disposal of the cell, is to grind down proteins into smaller bits and recycle some of those bits and parts.

This garbage disposal occurs during sleep, so to to investigate the force behind the cleaning, they looked at the brains of sleeping mice.