Two Americans win Medicine Nobel for work on heat and touch

STOCKHOLM - American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday (Oct 4) for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers. Their work, carried out independently, has helped show how humans convert the physical impact from heat or touch into...

Related Keywords

New York ,United States ,Stockholm ,Sweden ,Armenia ,Lebanon ,California ,California Institute Of Technology ,Columbia University ,La Jolla ,San Francisco ,Armenian ,Swedish ,American ,David Julius ,Ardem Patapoutian ,Los Angeles ,Alfred Nobel ,Thomas Perlmann ,University Of California ,Scripps Research ,Nobel Committee For Physiology Or Medicine ,Nobel Assembly ,Nobel Assembly At Sweden Karolinska Institute ,Karolinska Institute ,California Institute ,York Born Julius ,Nobel Committee ,Nobel Prize ,