• Two Americans and one German share the Nobel Prize in medicine this year
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[quote](CNN) -- Two Americans and a German shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine this year. Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and German Thomas C. Sudhof were awarded the prize Monday for discoveries of how the body's cells decide when and where to deliver the molecules they produce. The Nobel Assembly said the three "have solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system." Their work focuses on tiny bubbles inside cells called vesicles, which move hormones and other molecules within cells and sometimes outside them, such as when insulin is released into the bloodstream. Disruptions of this delivery system contribute to diabetes, neurological diseases and immunological disorders. Rothman, a professor at Yale University, detailed how protein machinery allows vesicles in cells to fuse with their targets to permit the transfer of molecular cargo. Schekman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was honored for discovering a set of genes required for the "vesicle traffic." Sudhof, a professor at Stanford University, showed how vesicles are instructed precisely when to release molecules. Schekman and Sudhof also are investigators at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/health/nobel-prize-medicine/index.html?hpt=hp_t3[/url]
Excellent, good on them
Your avatar is kitten overseers from cookie clicker [editline]7th October 2013[/editline] Also this is a lesson about how we can all work together blah blah go international collaboration
They'll have to come up with some kind of schedule. James gets it Mondays and Wednesdays, etc.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42443421]They'll have to come up with some kind of schedule. James gets it Mondays and Wednesdays, etc.[/QUOTE] If I were one of them I'd just be like "Here you take it. I don't care about medals or bullshit of that nature and would probably have just sold the damned thing on eBay if I won it solo. But it means something to you two, so you two sort it out."
Surprised it didn't go to the team that have developed a (thus-far) successful 'cure' for HIV, but I'm guessing that's due to the fact it's not publically available yet?
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