Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

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Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
This year's Nobel Laureate "discovered and elucidated" mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.

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