STOCKHOLM, October 3. /TASS/. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy – a study into how cells detoxify and repair themselves.

Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in the past ... the wake-sleep cycles of most living things. 2016: Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan, for his work on autophagy -- a process ...

Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, said he worries there's a slight tendency that the importance of basic research is being underestimated. Yoshinori Ohsumi ...

Gabriel Popkin, science and environmental writer, in a New York Times op-ed on the need to expand the categories for which the Nobel Prize is awarded (October 3) —Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi of ...