It's Nobel Prize season and today the Nobel Assembly announced they have awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch."
Julius is a professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of California San Francisco, while Patapoutian is a professor at the Department of Neuroscience in the Scripps Research medical facility in San Diego. Their discoveries have "unlocked one of the secrets of nature by explaining the molecular basis for sensing heat, cold and mechanical force, which is fundamental for our ability to feel, interpret and interact with our internal and external environment."
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