Yoshinori Ohsumi gets the 2016 Noble Prize for Medicine

Japanese Cell biologist from Fukuoka working at the Tokyo Institute of Technology the Noble Prize for his work on cell recycling.

The prize was for his 1990's ground breaking brilliant experiments on cell 'autophagy', a process by which damaged cells are eaten up to provide the necessary elements for cell renewal.

Here is the You Tube Video:


More Noble Prizes to be announced:

Physics 10/4 2016
Chemistry 10/5/2016
Peace 10/6/2016
Literature 10/29/2016

Japan bags two Noble Prizes in 2015

From microbes to cosmos...

Satoshi Omura (Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan) shares one-half of Noble Prize for medicine with William C.Campbell (Drew University, Madison, NJ). 

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v2/n12/full/nrmicro1048.html#f2
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/06/satoshi-omura-from-night-school-teacher-to-nobel-winner/

Prize motivation:
"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"

 

 

The other half of Noble Prize for medicine goes to YouYouTu (China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China) of China

Prize motivation:
"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"

More here:
"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 6 Oct 2015.
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2015/index.html>

Prof. Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan) shares Noble Prize in Physics 2015 with Arthur B. McDonald (Queens Univer)sity, Sydney, Canada)

Prize motivation: "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"