Nobel Prize Laureates in the Field of Medicine and Physiology

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Every year, a prestigious prize is given to people who provide a reason for change, a new invention or a new discovery. The Nobel Prize Laureates in 2013 in the field of physiology, and medicine was given to three individuals. The Laureates were James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof. The three investigators revealed that there is the machinery that controls how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system which ends up delivering them to the right place at the right time in the body. This is unbelievable since, there was a lot of skepticism concerning the research pursued by the scientists. The concept of how our body acts like a machine in which we respond to our senses is truly breath taking.
James E. Rothman was born on the 3rd of November 1950 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Rothman is a professor at Yale School of Medicine for the Cell Biology department. Rothman was given the Nobel Prize for vesicle trafficking in the human body. In the late 1980s and 1990s Rothman began to study the transportation of mammalian cells. He discovered that there was “a protein complex allows vesicles to dock and fuse with their target membranes” (Altman). After his investigation he determined that the proteins on the vesicles and target membranes bind together completely. When Rothman was conducting his investigation he noticed the combination of the proteins which led him to conduce that the relation to allow the cell to reach to a particular location at a particular time was beyond belief.
Similarly, Randy W. Schekman is a researcher at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was born on the 30th of December 1948 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Professor Schekman began his studies in the 1970s. He developed a model system which w...

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...nto the new world of medicine. The basic function of a cell has gained a new function which can provide a pathway of exploring ideas and concepts relating to the mutation of cells. If we are able to determine the specific time and place a cell is transported then, we can surely mutate the cell to prevent the spread of terminal diseases. The Nobel Prize winners truly deserve this prestigious award. After decades of intensive, tedious and tiresome studying they were able to uncover a mystery of the human body which now opens many doors to new studies that would be beneficial to society.

Works Cited

Altman, Lawrence K. “For 3 Nobel Winners, a Molecular Mystery Solved.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 7 Oct. 2013. Web. 1 Dec. 2013.
“The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013.” The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013.

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