Yoshinori Ohsumi gets Nobel medicine prize

13:54 • 03.10.16

2016 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about autophagy - how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components, the BBC reports.

His fundamental work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson's.

Yoshinori Ohsumi gets Nobel medicine prize