How Fasting helps Blood Cells stave off Starvation - Nobel Prize 2016 - Yoshinori Ohsumi

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Sources:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2016/press.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/nobel-honors-discoveries-how-cells-eat-themselves
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/38/8/38_b15-00096/_pdf
http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(16)30524-4

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshinori_Osumi_201511.jpg

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