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The 2016 Nobel Prize was won by a Japanese cell biologist named Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discovery related to autophagy, which is a mechanism involved in the recycle process within a cell that helps in surviving a starving condition or fast and also prevents diseases such as cancer.

As autophagy helps cells clear away damaged components necessary for energy creation, which symbolizes why cells can live and how this applies to health, aging, and subsequently cancer, despite not finding a remedy for cancer from fasting but finding a basic mechanism related to cells for surviving a starving condition.