http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/press.html
Yale's Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences James E. Rothman, UC Berkeley's Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology Randy W. Schekman, and Stanford's Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Thomas C. Südhof today were jointly awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, which awards the prize in physiology or medicine, cited "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".
Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine--James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof, together with a diagram summarizing their discoveries (Photo: Nobel Foundation)
得獎主題:細胞內蛋白質與神經傳導物質如何運送至細胞外.
上圖顯示細胞內所合成的蛋白如何運送出來,到達血液中,其間有許多複雜的蛋白參與胞膜溶合 (membrane fusion)。