title: Nobel Prize Honors Autophagy Discovery.
abstract: Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi, PhD, was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of autophagy. His groundbreaking studies in yeast cells illuminated how cells break down and recycle damaged material, a process that is critical to the survival of both normal cells and some cancer cells.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001343:Autophagy; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*