Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman, and German Thomas Sudhof were jointly named as the 2013 Nobel Prize winners for Medicine. The three professors were awarded the coveted prize for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic and for solving “the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system.”

Rothman is a professor and chairman in the department of cell biology at Yale University. Schekman is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Sudhof is a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University.

Nobel Prize also announced the winners on its Twitter feed.
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