In 2000, it was suggested to me that “Autophagy will be the wave of the future; it will become the new apoptosis.” Few people would have agreed at the time, but this statement turned out to be ...

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. Home Browse Series ...

TASS/. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute ...

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

It was Professor Noboru Mizushima, who took an interest in autophagy at a time when few researchers addressed this subject. At that time he was still a graduate student at the Tokyo Medical and Dental ...