Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

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Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

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How do we feel the difference between a light breeze and a pinch? To find out, Scientific American Custom Media,

in partnership with the Cavley Prize, sat down with Professor Arden-Pataputian. He shared the

Cavley Prize in neuroscience in 2020 for answering this basic question. Ardum says, until recently,

no one really understood how our sense of touch works.

Decades ago, we figured out how we see and then how we smell and taste. How we sense touch

was a big mystery. Why was touch so difficult to understand? Artem says no one knew how the body

turned a physical sensation, like a squeeze on your arm,

into a message that cells could understand.

I always compare this to a dark room that you don't know what's going on inside.

You need to find the door handle so that you can open the door, turn on some lights,

and find out what's inside.

After a series of painstaking experiments, Artiman's colleagues found that doorknob,

a special type of proteins they named the Piazos.

And these are fascinating molecules that do one thing,

and that is they let ions go from outside the cell to inside the cell or vice versa.

The body has lots of these ion channels that open and close to pass messages to our cells,

but almost all of them move in response to some sort of chemical change.

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