STOCKHOLM Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in medicine ... Ohsumi for “brilliant experiments” in the 1990s on autophagy, a phenomenon that literally means “self ...

Autophagy has been known for over 50 years but its fundamental importance in physiology and medicine was only recognized after Yoshinori Ohsumi's paradigm-shifting research in the 1990's.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a 71-year-old biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, used baker’s yeast to shed light on a cellular process called autophagy (Greek for “self-eating”). In a series ...

He called the process autophagy, but it was initially viewed as a one-off version of the lysosome, so only a handful of labs examined it over the next three decades. Enter Yoshinori Ohsumi and ...

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel prize ... Ohsumi's work on cell breakdown, a field known as autophagy, is important because it can help explain what goes wrong in a range ...

Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for seminal work on the fundamental cell process called autophagy, which literally means “self-eating.” ...

STOCKHOLM – Yoshinori Ohsumi, a 71-year-old Japanese scientist ... for groundbreaking experiments in the 1990s dealing with autophagy, the "self-eating" process that lets a cell break down ...

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine ... Ohsumi's work on cell breakdown, a field known as autophagy, is important because it can help explain what goes wrong in a ...

Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the 2016 Nobel prize for Medicine or Physiology for his path breaking work on autophagy or self-eating. The Nobel prizes for achievements in ...

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his influential work investigating the mechanisms of autophagy. From the Greek auto- (self) and phagein (to eat) ...

The 2016 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his "discoveries of the mechanisms for autophagy". The Japanese researcher, an emeritus professor at Tokyo ...