The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today, to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”.
To read about the science behind the prize in more detail, check out the Nobel Prize press release here, or the more detailed scientific background here.
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