Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi is a soft-spoken man who speaks dispassionately ... He was the first person in the world to visually observe the function of autophagy (self-cannibalization), whereby cells ...

In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries into the mechanisms of autophagy. These have led to a better understanding of diseases such as Parkinson's and ...

Frontier Research Center professors Hideo Hosono and Yoshinori Ohsumi were selected on September 25 as Thomson ... I first began researching yeast autophagy twenty-five years ago. At that time, ...

EMBO Press congratulates Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute for Technology in Yokohama on the award of a Nobel Prize for mapping the genetic wiring of autophagy – the highly controlled process ...

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.

Autophagy kicks in when the body has been given a break from food for a period of between sixteen to twenty-four hours. A Japanese doctor, (not surprisingly) Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize ...

In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about autophagy.

We were delighted when Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2016 for his elucidation of the mechanism of autophagy. His achievement provided an ...

Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on cell autophagy. It is a process that helps the body remove unwanted proteins but ...

2016: Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan, for his work on autophagy -- a process whereby cells "eat themselves" -- which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes. 2015: William Campbell ...