🌀 Autophagy is when your Cells Recycle Damaged Material in the body (“self-eating”). It’s your body’s natural recycling system where cells break down and remove old, damaged, or unnecessary components (like proteins, cysts and organelles) to create energy and building blocks for new cell parts, acting as a crucial quality control and survival mechanism, especially during stress, starvation, or infection. 🌀 This process involves forming a membrane “trash bag” (autophagosome) around waste, which

Jam's Germs on Instagram: "My favorite unicellular organism is having a snack in real time. It has a perfectly fitting name: Lacrymaria olor, which translates to “tears of a swan,” referring to its tear-shaped body and swan-like neck. . Lacrymaria olor’s “neck” can extend up to 30 times its body length. If I had that skill, taking the trash out would be dramatically easier. 😂 At the tip of the neck are tiny, needle-like structures packed with cell-melting toxins. Lacrymaria usually hides its bo