David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian win 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
04 October 2021 |
3:17 pm
The molecular biologists have won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, the Nobel Committee has announced in Stockholm.
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