American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Dr. Julius has been studying the different compounds in chili peppers and spider venom to understand how our bodies sense heat and chemical irritants. Decoding the neuroscience of pain can help develop new targets for pain therapy. Dr. Patapoutian helped discover a novel class of sensors in our skin and internal organs that respond to cold and other mechanical stimuli.
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