Takaaki Akaike

Professor, Tohoku University; co-lead of the S8 discovery

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Mammals produce cyclo-octasulfur rings to suppress ferroptosis

Active researcher; lead scientist on the study

The enzyme best known for relaxing blood vessels has a second job: it builds rings of eight sulfur atoms that shield cells from a form of self-destruction. Researchers in Japan and Germany reported in Science that mammalian cells store these cyclo-octasulfur rings in mitochondria and lipid droplets, where they feed antioxidant defenses.

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