Nobel Prize For Medicine Announced.......

Nobel Prize For Medicine Announced.......

James Rothman and Randy Schekman, both from the US, and Thomas Sudhof, from Germany, have been announced as winners for the Nobel Prize for medicine, after discovering how cells precisely transport material.

They found the way "vesicles" act like a fleet of ships transporting their goods to the exact destination.
The billions of cells which make up the body are not empty blobs, instead they are packed with precise machinery. Even as the cell needs the right materials in the right place at the right time, to function properly.
Vesicles are tiny bubbles of fat which act as the cell's internal shipping service. They can send material such as enzymes, neurotransmitters and hormones, around the cell. Or they can fuse with the outer surface of the cell and release their contents into the wider body.

The prize committee said the findings had a major impact on our understanding of how cargo is delivered with timing and precision within and outside the cell.
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