Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria — it changes with age, and researchers now see that faltering maintenance as one of aging’s deeper biological engines

Mitophagy, the cellular process that dismantles broken mitochondria, was named by Norwegian biochemist Per Ottar Seglen in 2005. Its slow failure with age is now considered a driver of aging itself, not just a consequence — and the same pathway that fails catastrophically in early-onset Parkinson's fades gently in everyone else. The post Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria — it changes with age, and researchers now see that faltering maintenance as one of a