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How 2016 Nobel Prize winner Yoshinori Oshumi revolutionizes medical research

Yoshinori Ohsumi attends press conference at Tokyo Institute of Technology on October 3, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The 2016 Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology for discoveries about autophagy - how the body breaks down and recycles cellular components.

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Chinese scientists identify mechanism behind smog-related diseases

Scientists discovered that autophagy, a normal physiological process in the body that destroys cells, leads to inflammation and mucus hyperproduction induced by particles 100 to 500 times thinner than a human hair.