Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel medicine prize.

Its  for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components,which is otherwise called as autophagy.
Disrupted autophagy has been linked to several diseases including Parkinson’s, diabetes and cancer.
“Intense research is now ongoing to develop drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases.

evelop drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases.

If not for ProfessorOhsumi’s research in the 1990s, the world would not have known the fundamental importance of autophagy in physiology and medicine.