2 U.S. scientists win Nobel medicine prize for sensory discoveries

U.S. researchers David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering receptors for temperature and touch.The discoveries by the two scientists explain how nerve impulses are initiated so that temperature and pressure can be perceived, paving the way for developing treatments for chronic pain and other conditions, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said in a statement.Julius, 65, is currently a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, while Patapoutian, born in 1967 in Lebanon and moved to Los Angeles in his …READ FULL ARTICLE