Two Californians win Nobel Prize for Research on How We Sense Touch, Temperature and Pain

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Two California scientists, David Julius from UCSF and Ardem Patapoutian from San Diego's Scripps Research, have won the 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine. In their work, which focuses on the biology of our senses, Julius and Patapoutian identified receptors that allow the cells in your body to sense touch and temperature. Their findings hold potential medical applications for better treatment of chronic pain. We talk with the prize-winning researchers about their work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.3	How do we feel?
1:03.5	I don't mean our mental health, at least not today.
1:08.8	I mean, how does our skin down at the cellular level feel heat or feel the pressure of a handshake?
1:13.9	Scientists have long known there must be some molecular machines that actually do this stuff.
1:19.1	Much as specialized cells and our eyes perceive light, but the actual mechanisms had eluded scientists.
1:20.3	Figuring that out has landed UCSF's David Julius and Artem Potiputian of Scripps
1:25.0	Research, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1:28.2	They join us to explain our body's remarkable capabilities
1:30.9	and how their discoveries could unlock new ways of treating pain without opiates.
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