The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. David Julius utilised capsaicin, a compound from chili peppers that induces a burning sensation, to identify a sensor in the nerve endings of the skin that responds to heat. Ardem Patapoutian used pressure-sensitive cells to discover […]
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