In 1971, Günter Blobel and David Sabatini formulated the signal hypothesis, which proposed that proteins contain signal sequences that target them for secretion. Over the past 40 years this ...

As with all scientists who reach the top of their field, stories about Blobel's character within the laboratory abound. Many wonder why his signal hypothesis colleague, David Sabatini, did not ...

Dr. Blobel laid out the beginnings of his idea with colleague David Sabatini in 1971, and four years later he published an article with Bernhard Dobberstein that outlined the theory in detail ...

Günter Blobel left his native Germany in 1962 to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He thought he would stay in the U.S. a year or two. He ended up remaining for the rest of ...

Dr. Günter Blobel, 81, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who extolled the beauty of cellular structures and baroque architecture alike, and who used the money he won to mend war-ravaged buildings ...

Günter Blobel, a molecular biologist who was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that proteins in any living cell have virtual ZIP codes that guide them to where they can ...

Dr. Günter Blobel, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who extolled the beauty of cellular structures and baroque architecture alike, and who used the money he won for his protein research to ...