Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012: Smart receptors on cell surfaces
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Your body is a fine-tuned system of interactions between billions of cells. Each cell has tiny receptors that enable it to sense its environment, so it can adapt to new situtations. Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of such receptors: G-protein-coupled receptors.