"Two Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize..."
(Reuters) - Two
Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for
their work on how hormones and enzymes are transported within and
outside cells, giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and
Alzheimer's.
James Rothman, Randy Schekman
and Germany's Thomas Suedhof mapped out one of the body's critical
networks that uses tiny bubbles known as vesicles to ferry chemicals
such as insulin within cells. The system is so critical and sensitive
that errors in the machinery can lead to death.
"Without
this wonderfully precise organization, the cell would lapse into
chaos," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a
statement when awarding the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.2 million).
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