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Published on Oct 3, 2016
This
year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarde
d to
Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries in cell autophagy -- that
is, the breakdown of cells.
A cell biologist and professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology,... Ohsumi identified the genes behind autophagy, a word derived from Greek that means "self-eating" and refers to how cells recycle their contents.
Disturbances in the autophagy process have been linked to various diseases, including cancer, and research is currently underway to develop drugs that can tackle such disruptions.
A cell biologist and professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology,... Ohsumi identified the genes behind autophagy, a word derived from Greek that means "self-eating" and refers to how cells recycle their contents.
Disturbances in the autophagy process have been linked to various diseases, including cancer, and research is currently underway to develop drugs that can tackle such disruptions.
Sweden's Karolinska Institute will continue to announce other Nobel laureates throughout the week, with the Nobel prize for physics to be announced on Tuesday,... chemistry on Wednesday,...and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The economics and literature winners will be announced next week.
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