The Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 3 for having elucidated the biological mechanism of autophagy. According to industry supplier Silab, it is a powerful process for degrading and recycling the constituents of cells. His work showed the importance of autophagy dysfunctions in a number of pathologies, as well as in the aging process. As recently as 2006, autophagy was only “background noise” in dermatology. Since that date,...