Nobel Prize in Medicine for American scientists

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapotian have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize. Ardem Patapotian is a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He has previously conducted research at the University of California, San Francisco and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. David Julius is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He has previously done research at Columbia University in New York.

Julius and Patapothian explored how sensations of temperature and touch are created in the brain through sensory concepts. It will be used to develop new painkillers, the Nobel Prize selection committee said. Julius and Patapothian explain how our nervous system responds to heat, cold, and mechanical force. Last year, Harvey Alter of the United States and Charles Rice, as well as Michael Houghton of the United Kingdom, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Your survival depends on how your body responds to heat, cold, and touch. In our daily life we feel these sensations but we never pay attention to them, because it happens automatically. But now neurons have been able to unravel the process by which they learn about temperature and pressure. David Julius has discovered a sensor that responds to heat in the nerves using the ingredient capsaicin in chili. Ardem Patapothian explores how the skin and internal organs respond to external mechanical force or stimuli using pressure sensor cells.
The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.