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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and Südhof

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Scientific American

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4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the podcast of Scientific American. I'm Steve Merski. Here are the 2013 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine.

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Julene Zirath heads the section of Integrative Physiology, Department of Molecular Medicine

0:48.7

and Surgery at Karolinska Institute and is a member of the Nobel Assembly.

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She announced the prize shortly after 5.30 a.m.

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Eastern time this morning. Professor James Rothman from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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Professor Randy Shackman, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Professor Thomas Sudoff,

1:12.6

Stanford University School of Medicine,

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Paul Alto, California, USA.

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The 2013 Nobel laureates have been interested in questions

1:24.6

related to fundamental cell physiology.

1:37.3

One of the greatest mysteries of cell physiology was how the right substances could be delivered to the right destinations at the right time.

1:48.0

How are molecules such as hormones, transport proteins, or neurotransmitters correctly routed to their appropriate destination. And how is this process controlled with temporal precision? The 2013 Nobel Prize

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honors three scientists who have solved the mystery of how the cell

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organizes its transport system. Each cell of the body has a complex organization that separates

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specific cellular functions into compartments.

2:19.3

This compartmentalization vastly improves the efficiency of many cellular functions,

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