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Japanese scientist wins Nobel medicine prize for work on 'self-eating' cell mechanism

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components. [Source]

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Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/iPGR-8dzgpI/us-nobel-prize-medicine-idUSKCN1230TX