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Americans win Nobel Medicine Prize for temperature and touch work
A screen displaying the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and their research field, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 4, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, the jury said.
"The groundbreaking discoveries... by this year's Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world," the Nobel jury said.
