Two Men Plus Two Cell Membrane Channels Plus Two Synchrotrons: One Nobel Prize

Soon the world will learn who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Do you remember Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon of the following announcement? The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize toPeter AgreJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA“for the discovery of water channels”and one half of the prize toRoderick MacKinnonHoward Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA“for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels”. [1] Two Cell Membrane Channels read more

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