STOCKHOLM: Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for his pioneering work on autophagy—a process whereby cells "eat themselves"—which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes.

A fundamental process in cell physiology, autophagy is essential for the orderly recycling of damaged cell parts and understanding it better has major implications for health and disease, including cancer.

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