10 hours agoResearch that came from hot peppers for touch and heat wins Nobel Prize
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Scientists who have discovered how our troops feel warm from the sun or embrace a boyfriend have won the Nobel Prize for Peace. David Julius and Ardem Pataposian, from the United States, shared the 2021 award in Medicine and Physiology for touch and temperature sense. They showed how our bodies [...]
David Julius and Ardem Pataposian, from the United States, shared the 2021 award in Medicine and Physiology for touch and temperature sense.
They showed how our troops convert physical sensors into electrical messages in the nervous system, reports the BBC, translates Periscope.
Their findings can lead to new forms of tormenting pain.
The heat, cold, and heat are vital to the world around us and to our survival.
But how our bodies actually do this was one of the greatest mysteries of biology.
Professor David Julius's discovery from California University came after investigating the burning pain we feel when we eat a hot pepper.
He experimented with the heat source of the hot pepper.
He discovered the specific type of receptor that answered that source. /Periscope
