A picture of US scientist James E. Rothman and illustration of his work are displayed on a screen during a press conference at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Oct. 7, 2013. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells," according to the Nobel Assembly. (Xinhua/Shi Tiancheng) |