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Nobel Prize for Medicine |
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Guenter Blobel of Rockefeller University in New York won
the  for Medicine for
his research on proteins which shed new light on human
diseases including cystic fibrosis and primary hyperoxaluria, an ilness causing development of
kidney stones at an early age. Blobel (63), a native of
Germany, was cited for the discovery that proteins have
intrinsic signals that govern their transport and
localisation in the cell. A number of hereditary diseases
are caused by errors in these signals and transport
mechanisms. Dr.
Blobel made this discovery in the early 1970s. During the
subsequent 20 years, he researched the details of how
these "postal codes," or signals, work. |
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