Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components. Autophagy ”self eating” is a process for degrading and recycling cellular components #NobelPrize #Medicine pic.twitter.com/glNWLPjxHe — @NobelPrizeThe organelle autophagosome engulfs cellular contents and fuses with the lysosome, where the contents are degraded. #NobelPrize 2016 pic.twitter.com/FBNpB5ksow — @NobelPrizeOhsumi studied thousands of yeast mutants and identified 15 genes that are essential for autophagy. It was the 107th award in the medicine category since the first Nobel Prizes were handed out in 1905. The announcements continue with physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2016 09:51 UTC