Nobel prize for medicine
US duo win Nobel for work on temperature and touch
"The groundbreaking discoveries... by this year's Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve...
The Physiology or Medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth $933,000.
William Campbell, Satoshi Omura & Youyou Tu jointly won the prizes for their discoveries.
The discovery by three scientists supports the understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Their work on creating stem cells opened the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases.