A Nobel Prize for understanding the molecular basis of sensing pain and touch

Burada, AP and Penmatsa, A (2021) A Nobel Prize for understanding the molecular basis of sensing pain and touch. In: Current Science, 121 (10). pp. 1274-1277.

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Abstract

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 2021 was awarded jointly to Prof. David J. Julius, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA and Prof. Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, San Diego, California, USA. The prize recognizes the decades long effort by the laboratories of both investigators to delve into the molecular underpinnings of sensing acute pain caused by chemical or physical stimuli, referred to as nociception and the sensation of touch, referred to as mechanosensation.As a prelude to winning the Nobel Prize, the two researchers were also awarded the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience in 2020. This note aims to capture the contributions, excitement and importance of both the Nobel laureates� long-standing research endeavours to study two remarkable and related phenomena of pain and touch © 2021, Current Science. All Rights Reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Current Science
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2022 11:40
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 11:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70827

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