Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi gets 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries about autophagy or how the body's cells detoxify and repair themselves. He studied baker's yeast to find the genes that regulate this "self-eating" process. Ohsumi's work helps explain what goes wrong in a range of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson's.