Volume 30, No 7, Jul 2020

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 30 Issue 7, July 2020: 553-553

EDITORIAL

A special review collection on autophagy

Li Yu^*

The State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Centre for Life Sciences, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
Correspondence: Li Yu(liyulab@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

The popular perception is that awarding a Nobel prize to scientists in a certain field marks the maturation or even the decline of that field. Many have argued that few fundamental questions remain to be answered afterwards. In reality, the opposite is more likely to be true. The award of a Nobel prize to Dr. Ohsumi in 2016 sparked interest in autophagy from researchers across a wide range of research directions, and in the past few years, we have witnessed the robust growth of the autophagy field. Difficult but fundamental questions are being addressed with increasing clarity and, more importantly, new questions are arising from unexpected directions. Guangchao Chen and I organized a review collection on Autophagy published in Cell Discovery, presented recent advances in our understanding of autophagy with a focus on these two aspects of autophagy research.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-0361-2

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