Spicy peppers helped one of this year's Nobel Prize winners learn about the science of touch

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to David Julius at UCSF and molecular neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research.

Julius used capsaicin— the spicy compound in peppers— to discover the proteins that respond to heat. He discovered a unique protein. — Read the rest

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