eLife is delighted to congratulate its Editor-in-Chief Randy Schekman on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof for their “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.
A vesicle is a small structure surrounded by a membrane that moves molecules around in cells. Schekman – who is at the University of California at Berkeley – discovered a set of genes that were required for vesicle transport. James Rothman (Yale University) pinpointed the process by which vesicles deliver their cargo to the correct area of the cell. Thomas Südhof (Stanford University) revealed how these same vesicles are able to release their contents in a precise manner.
Watch the announcement at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_EPtQhtcmY&feature=share&t=28m44s
Watch “Randy Schekman’s Nobel Morning” at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRADDqc_D3M&feature=youtu.be
Read more about the prize and the three new Nobel laureates at:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2013/
Storify
http://storify.com/elifesciences/randy-schekman-elife-editor-in-chief-shares-nobel
Media coverage
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24427951
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/07/health/nobel-prize-medicine/
Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/07/nobel-prize-medicine-cell-transport-vesicles
HHMI News: http://www.hhmi.org/news/schekman-sudhof-awarded-2013-nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine
Nature: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/10/nobels-2013-physiology-or-medicine.html
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/health/3-win-joint-nobel-prize-in-medicine.html
Science: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2013/10/research-cellular-traffic-bags-nobel-awards