5 Minutes on the Lysosome. Because it’s time you know.
Posted on August 13th, 2009 by Steph in Lysosomal Disease, tags: 100% to Research, Addi and Cassi Hempel, Alec Baldwin, amy shade, autophagy, blindness, Brain Disease, childrens disease, deirdra storm, dwarfism, enzyme, enzyme replacement therapy, fabry, fucosidosis, gaucher, genetic, genetics, george wolfe, Hide & Seek Boutique, hide and seek boutique, john hopwood, Lysosomal, Lysosomal Disease, lysosome, metabolic, metabolic disease, mps, Mucolipidosis, muscular dystrophy, newborn screening, niemann pick, Niemann-Pick Type C disease, osteoarthritus, parents, philanthropic, pompe, Rare Disease, religion, stephanie lyn, tay sachs, tristen cortesSo did you ever wonder what happens to the tadpole’s tail? Does it just fall off? No actually. Lysosomes eat it. (autophagy: the cell’s ability to eat itself…) And the webbing in our fingers and toes as fetus’s. Eaten by lysosomes.
This is a great, short and extremely informative piece on these tiny little organelles that are so important to our well-being.
Is the lysosome the first place we should look when we have issues in the body? Not the last? Hmmmm…
xoxo,
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