self-eating

I am running with a band of true modern hipsters before the term enters the lexicon and the market, before the self-eating self-awareness of global cool fully kicks in.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

This process is called autophagy literally, self-eating, and it has an important role in other parts of the body to provide energy in times of starvation.

Week in Ideas David DiSalvo 2011

This is the kind of self-eating argument that makes me think we should ignore all of you blog big brains, confused libertarian Andy Sullivan included.

Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No” 2009

I am running with a band of true modern hipsters before the term enters the lexicon and the market, before the self-eating self-awareness of global cool fully kicks in.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

I am running with a band of true modern hipsters before the term enters the lexicon and the market, before the self-eating self-awareness of global cool fully kicks in.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

Thus mathematics twists back on itself, like a self-eating snake.

Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll Sean 2008

Through a process with the expressive name of autophagy, or "self-eating," cells create specialized membranes that engulf junk in the cell's cytoplasm and carry it to a part of the cell known as the lysosome, where the trash is broken apart and then burned by the cell for energy.

NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2012

Although it sounds like something straight out of a horror flick, researchers found that autophagy, or the act of self-eating, occurs in certain hunger-inducing neurons within the hypothalamus to give the body a head's up that it's time to eat.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

That finding, however, didn't explain what the augmented cellular cleaning meant for the well-being of the mice, so the researchers developed a new strain of mouse that showed normal autophagy levels in most instances, but could not increase its cellular self-eating in response to stress.

NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2012

That finding, however, didn't explain what the augmented cellular cleaning meant for the well-being of the mice, so the researchers developed a new strain of mouse that showed normal autophagy levels in most instances, but could not increase its cellular self-eating in response to stress.

NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2012