Day: October 31, 2021

Scientists Get Nobel Prize for Explaining Ancient Women’s Medical Cure

JONATHAN NACKSTRAND This year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California, and Ardem Patapoutian, a molecular neurobiologist at Scripps, for their work identifying the molecular and chemical bases of our sensory perception of temperature and touch. Or, to put it plainly, exactly what it is that