In 2000, it was suggested to me that “Autophagy will be the wave of the future; it will become the new apoptosis.” Few people would have agreed at the time, but this statement turned out to be ...

Postdoctoral Researcher Tetsuya Kotani, Associate Professor Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and colleagues at Tokyo Tech have analyzed the Atg protein Atg2, whose function ...

Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in medicine ... honored Ohsumi for "brilliant experiments" in the 1990s on autophagy, a phenomenon that literally means "self-eating ...

In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about ...

Water fasting sparks autophagy, the body’s self-cleaning mode—breaking down damaged cells to fight disease. Nobel Prize-winner Yoshinori Ohsumi confirmed its power in 2016 research.