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Nobel prize-winning autophagy research laid groundwork for potential Parkinson's treatment

  • Written by Charbel Moussa, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University
imageAutophagy lets neurons clear out harmful proteins. UCI Research via Flickr, CC BY-NC

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 3 “for his discoveries of the mechanisms for autophagy”, which is how cells “recycle” their contents. Autophagy is a quality control mechanism that destroys...

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