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Japan's Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize for cell 'recycling' work

Published Mon, Oct 3, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    Stockholm

    YOSHINORI Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for his pioneering work on autophagy - a process whereby cells "eat themselves" - which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes.

    He is currently a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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