Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about "autophagy" — a fundamental process cells use to degrade and ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body's defences where cells ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi, whose work on how cells jettison and recycle parts of themselves has deepened our understanding of human disease, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ohsumi ...

The Nobel Assembly at the Stockholm, Amsterdam-based Krolinska Institutet awarded Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on the process of autophagy, ...

Autophagy is a basic process that may go wrong in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases. This finding, an understanding of what seems to be a base level process in a cell, resonates as if there will be ...

NEW YORK -- Like a busy city, a cell works better if it can dispose of and recycle its garbage. Now a Japanese scientist has won the Nobel Prize in medicine for showing how that happens. The research ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, attends a news conference after he won the Nobel medicine prize at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, October 3, 2016.