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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 ...