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2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for
A
Discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
B
Discoveries concerning novel therapies against river blindness
C
Discoveries concerning novel therapies against lymphatic filariasis
D
Elucidating the metabolism of glucose
Explanation: 

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: -Fake News: No, Nobel Prize Was Not Awarded For ‘Discovering’ Ekadashi Fasting Reduces Cancer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work uncovering the genomes of our ancient human ancestors and other early hominins.

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