Nobel Prize for medicine goes to two scientists who identified the receptors that allow us to feel pain and temperature...as Covid vaccine and treatment breakthroughs are shunned
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Scientists who discovered how we feel touch and temperature have won the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian shared the award for identifying how our bodies convert physical sensations into electrical signals in the nervous system.
The scientists were credited with 'unlocking one of the secret's of nature' by the Nobel Prize committee today.
It said their discovery will pave the way for developments of treatments for a wide range of conditions, including chronic pain.