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  • Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi has won this year's Nobel prize in medicine for his

  • work on 'self-eating' cells.

  • He figured out how cells degrade and essentially take out the trash.

  • Barry Welsh reports.

  • The Japanese cell biologist received the award for his research on how cells operate to "detoxify"

  • themselves.

  • Yoshinori Ohsumi's work on cell breakdown, a field known as autophagy, is important because

  • it can help explain what goes wrong in a variety of diseases.

  • Autophagy, derived from Greek words that basically mean "self-eating" is how the body recycles

  • unwanted or unneeded cells.

  • These unneeded cells are located in the body and their useful elements are recycled to

  • generate energy or create new cells.

  • It's a very important process that prevents cancerous growths from forming, maintains

  • a healthy metabolism and can also protect against diabetes.

  • Ohsumi's research concerns how cells break down and recycle their content.

  • And disruptions in this recycling process have been linked to diseases like cancer,

  • Parkinson's and type 2 diabetes.

  • "The discoveries made by Yoshinori Ohsumi have been instrumental in revealing the mechanism

  • and significance of a fundamental physiological process and there is growing hope that this

  • knowledge will lead to the development of new strategies for the treatment of many human

  • diseases."

  • Ohsumi was awarded a prize of 8 million Swedish crowns, or roughly 933,000 US dollars, and

  • he told Japanese media that he was extremely honored.

  • "In recent years I've unexpectedly received many awards, but the weight of the Nobel prize

  • is on another level."

  • The Japanese cell biologist was born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan, and has been a professor

  • at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2009.

  • The prize for Physiology or Medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.

  • Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in accordance

  • with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.

  • Barry Welsh, Arirang news.

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi has won this year's Nobel prize in medicine for his

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日本人の細胞生物学者がオートファジーの研究でノーベル賞を受賞 (Japanese cell biologist awarded Nobel Prize for work on autophagy)

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