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Günter Blobel, Nobel Laureate Who Found Cell ‘ZIP Codes,’ Dies at 81

FILE -- Gunter Blobel in his laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York on Nov. 29, 2004. 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 help regulate body tissues, organs and chemistry, died on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, in New York. He was 81. (James Estrin/The New York Times)