The 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
The two US-based scientists received the accolade for describing the mechanics of how humans perceive hot and cold, and pressure through nerve impulses.Julius is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Patapoutian is a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.
— The Nobel Prize October 4, 2021 They identified a cell line that reacted when its individual cells were poked with a micropipette. The team then identified 72 candidate genes that could be encoding receptors and"switched them off" one by one to discover the one responsible for mechanosensitivity.Abdel El Manira, an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine, said the discovery was made more than a decade ago. "It's the right time to be recognized.
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