US duo, German win Nobel Medicine Prize

US duo James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born Thomas Suedhof won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system, the jury said.

 

 A screen displays photos of (left to right) James E Rothman from the US, Randy W Schekman from the US and Thomas C Suedhof from Germany, joint winners of the Nobel prize for medicine, at a press conference on October 7, 2013 in Stockholm

The trio, who all work at US universities, were honoured for "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells", it said.