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Your body has a cleanup crew and Yoshinori Ohsumi figured out how it operates. The Japanese biologist took home the Nobel Prize for uncovering the mechanism behind self-cleansing: when starved, the body basically starts "eating" its own damaged cells. Wild that hunger flips a switch like that

Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize discovery

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🏝️ Dr Topaz@dr.topaz

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Your body has a cleanup crew and Yoshinori Ohsumi figured out how it operates. The Japanese biologist took home the Nobel Prize for uncovering the mechanism behind self-cleansing: when starved, the body basically starts "eating" its own damaged cells. Wild that hunger flips a switch like that

Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize discovery

2h