Nobel Committee Secretary Thomas Perlmann said Ohsumi seemed surprised when he was informed he had won the prize. “The first thing he said was ‘ahhh.’ He was very, very pleased,” Perlmann ...

STOCKHOLM Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how cells break down and recycle content, a garbage disposal system that scientists hope ...

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.” ...

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology Monday for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, which could lead to a better ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi, whose work on how cells jettison and recycle parts of themselves has deepened our understanding of human disease, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.. Ohsumi ...

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi answers a phone call following a news that he won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine at his office in the Tokyo Institute of Technology campus in Yokohama ...

STOCKHOLM — 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. The Ka… ...

Nobel Prize winner Yoshinori Ohsumi, center, poses with Tokyo Institute of Technology President Yoshinao Mishima, left, and its Excutive Vice President Makoto Ando after a press conference at the ...

Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about "autophagy" — a fundamental process cells use to degrade ...

The Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his “discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”. Autophagy, meaning ‘self ...

Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how cells break down and recycle content, a garbage disposal system that scientists hope to harness ...