The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Japanese biologist, Yoshinori Ohsumi, for his work on how cells dispose of and recycle their waste – a process known to be linked to Parkinson’s.
Waste disposal and recycling in cells happens through a process called autophagy. Thanks to Yoshinori’s work, we now know that there are different types of autophagy in our cells.
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