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2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi's Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease

2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi's Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in which cells eat parts of themselves to survive and stay healthy.His initial work, first started in 1992, focused on the genes behind the autophagy process in yeast cells.Autophagy, however, has implications for several human diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases and diabetes.Now drugs that can target the process are being tested in early-stage clinical trials in human beings, which could fundamentally change everything from the way we treat dementia disorders to how we eradicate cancerous growths.


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Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins Nobel Prize For Research On 'Self-Eating Cells'

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins Nobel Prize For Research On 'Self-Eating Cells'




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Nobel Prize for Yoshinori Ohsumi: Here's what he did to achieve the award

Nobel Prize for Yoshinori Ohsumi: Here's what he did to achieve the award

The Nobel Prize 2016 for medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan.The 71-year-old Japanese scientist won the prize on Monday for his work on how damaged cells recycle themselves — known as autophagy — and the major implications it has for health and diseases, including cancer and neurological disorders.But Ohsumi's field of interest was far from the limelight when he started his career.Autophagy is a process whereby cells 'eat themselves' — which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes.