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Yoshinori Ohsumi gets Nobel medicine prize
Source: BBC
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.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37540927
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