Yoshinori Ohsumi gets Nobel medicine prize
15:38, 3 October 2016
LONDON. KAZINFORM The 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for discoveries about autophagy - how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components.
Ohsumi's work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson's, BBC News reported.