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American scientists David Julius and Ardim Patapotin win 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
From their important discoveries, we can understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can trigger neural stimuli that allow us to understand and adapt to the world around us.

According to a foreign news agency, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to scientists David Julius and Ardem for their joint discovery of temperature and tactile veins or nerve signals.
From their important discoveries, we can understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can trigger neural stimuli that allow us to understand and adapt to the world around us.
This knowledge is being used to treat various ailments, including chronic pain.
The century-old prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (1. 1.15 million).
BREAKING NEWS:
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 4, 2021
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.” pic.twitter.com/gB2eL37IV7
Prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace were created and funded by Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.
Last year's award went to Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice and British Michael Houghton for their work in identifying the hepatitis C virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer.
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