CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Work. In the lysosomes of our cells its components are processed for reuse. The mechanisms of this process were mostly unknown until the early 1990s, when Yoshinori Ohsumi conducted a series of groundbreaking experiments with yeast, where he detected autophagy and identified genes important for the process.

Detailed explanation-2: -False social media posts with tens of thousands of shares worldwide claim the Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the 2016 Nobel Medicine Prize, recommended fasting to cure cancer. Ohsumi’s research has led to a new understanding of how disruptions on cell “recycling” can cause diseases such as cancer.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the front row (positions 10–12) are Daniel J. Klionsky, the vice chair; Beth Levine, the chair; and Yoshinori Ohsumi, the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Symbol of Japan’s Will for Peace The reasons the Nobel Committee gave for awarding the Peace Prize to Eisaku Sato were that as Japanese Prime Minister he represented the will for peace of the Japanese people, and that he had signed the nuclear arms Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1970.

Detailed explanation-5: -The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, a cell biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.”