David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, American Scientists, won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on 4 October.
Highlights:
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize for their discoveries of temperature and touch receptors.
These discoveries could help create new painkillers and allows us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force initiate the nerve impulses.
This might help in the development of treatments for several diseases and conditions.
The Nobel Prize for medicine was shared into equal parts for laureates.
There were also recommendations for COVID 19 Vaccines developers to be rewarded with Nobel Prizes.