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1st LD: Japanese scientist wins 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Xinhua, October 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the committee announced Monday.

The Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute has decided to award the 2016 physiology or medicine prize to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Endi