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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms of Autophagy! - Mancias Lab - Pancreatic Cancer Research
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Why this Japanese scientist won a 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine for cell 'self-eating' | PBS NewsHour
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