References & Sources

Zip Code plan for proteins wins Nobel

The discovery that proteins bear signals directing them to their destinations within cells earned this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

References:

The official announcement of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine can be found at http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/medicine99.html.

Sources:

Günter Blobel
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue, Box 168
New York, NY 10021-6399

Tom A. Rapoport
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cell Biology
240 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-6091

Danny J. Schnell
Rutgers University
Department of Biological Sciences
101 Warren Street
Newark, NJ 07102

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 246. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.