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Nobel medicine prize for cell discovery
Issue October 2016
Nobel medicine prize for cell discovery
BBC NEWS From the section Health
October 3, 2016
The 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about autophagy - how the body breaks down and recycles old cellular components.
Ohsumi's work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson's. He studied baker's yeast to find the genes that regulate this "self eating" process.
Last year's prize was shared by three scientists who developed treatments for malaria and other tropical diseases.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37540927
