The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. LefkowitzHoward Hughes Medical Institute andDuke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. KobilkaStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA “for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors”.Smart receptors on cell surfacesYour body is a fine-tuned system of interactions between billions of cells. Each cell has tiny receptors that enable it to sense its environment, so it can adapt to new situtations. Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka are
