U.S. Scientists Share Chemistry Nobel for Cell Receptors
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Two U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering receptors, proteins that receive and transmit messages to cells, and are the basis for as much as half of all today’s medicines.
Robert J. Lefkowitz, 69, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and Brian K. Kobilka, 57, of Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, will share the 8 million-krona ($1.2 million) award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said at a news conference today in Stockholm.