Profiles in Science - March 30, 2022
“These receptors are the key to the door of understanding biology and disease”
Ardem Patapoutian searched for answers to a fundamental question, which led to complex discoveries and a whole new exciting field. Ardem Patapoutian shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 with David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. These discoveries have led to a better understanding of how the nervous […]
The Nobel Prize in Medicine - March 16, 2022
David Julius: “We need to restore the faith in science”
One of Nobel Laureate David Julius’ greatest joys is when people in his lab show him exciting data and make their own discoveries, and as a scientist and educator his goal is to bring society back to fact-based thinking. The mechanisms humans use to detect and process hot and cold and experience pain have not […]
