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Nobel de Medicina 2021: un premio por descubrir cómo sentimos el calor de una taza de café o las caricias

Los investigadores Ardem Patapoutian y David Julius estudian las sensaciones omnipresentes con la promesa de mejorar la lucha contra el dolor

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 04, 2021 shows a handout picture released on October 4, 2021 by Scripps Research with a portrait of the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ardem Patapoutian and a handout photo taken on September 5, 2019 in San Francisco and released on October 4, 2021 by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) showing David Julius, PhD, professor and chair of the university's Department of Physiology, posing for a portrait after winning the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. - US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. (Photos by Handout and Noah Berger / various sources / AFP) / (L) RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /SCRIPPS RESEARCH " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 04, 2021 shows a handout picture released on October 4, 2021 by Scripps Research with a portrait of the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Ardem Patapoutian and a handout photo taken on September 5, 2019 in San Francisco and released on October 4, 2021 by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) showing David Julius, PhD, professor and chair of the university's Department of Physiology, posing for a portrait after winning the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. - US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. (Photos by Handout and Noah Berger / various sources / AFP) / (L) RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /SCRIPPS RESEARCH " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ( R) RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NOAH BERGER / UCSF" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / HANDOUT NOAH BERGER
(Video) Nobel de Medicina para dos estadounidenses por receptores de temperatura y tacto

París. El calor de una taza de café, la caricia de un tejido en la piel... El Premio Nobel de Medicina 2021 recae en dos investigadores que estudian estas sensaciones omnipresentes, con la promesa de mejorar la lucha contra el dolor.

Explicar “estas sensaciones tan corrientes como enigmáticas” era el principal objetivo del estadounidense David Julius, uno de los dos agraciados con el Nobel, según afirmó este científico en una entrevista en el 2020 para la revista BrainFacts.

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