In 2000, it was suggested to me that “Autophagy will be the wave of the future; it will become the new apoptosis.” Few people would have agreed at the time, but this statement turned out to be ...

To address this issue, Noda's group in CREST has elucidated that the structure responsible for autophagy is a liquid droplet *1 formed by "liquid-liquid phase separation *2" of the Atg proteins (Fig.