The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been given to two American professors and a German-born professor at Stanford who have 鈥渟olved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system.鈥� The three scientists are being honored for their discoveries of 鈥渕achinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells鈥� (hormones, enzymes, and other key materials transported with cells), the Nobel Assembly at Karolinkska Institutet .
The award was given to James E. Rothman, 62, professor of biomedical sciences at Yale University; Randy W. Schekman, 64, professor of cellular and developmental biology at the University of California-Berkeley; and German-born Thomas C. Sudhoff, 57, a professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University.
The news wire service Associated Press says, 鈥淭he discovery solves the mystery of how animal cells organize their internal transportation system to direct molecules to the correct place. This helps explain how certain illnesses, including diabetes, tetanus and many immune diseases, work.鈥�
Nobel Prize 2013 Awardees. Photo: Courtesy of NobelPrizeMedicine.org
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