Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )
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Japanese cell biologist who cracked how cells eat themselves. Ohsumi's work on autophagy—the cellular recycling process—landed him a Nobel Prize and made him the go-to name when your cells need internal cleanup.
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Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components.
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