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A. Break the word down and you get auto and phagy: from the Greek for self, auto, and eating, phagein.   

B. Autophagy refers to a process in cells whereby they destroy themselves and send the parts out for recycling.   

C. Those vesicles then get transported to an organelle within the cell called the lysosome, where the sacks get degraded and the contents are made available for reuse.   

D. Cells do this by enclosing their contents in tiny sacks, called vesicles.   

E. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries of mechanisms of what’s known as autophagy.