Tag: Nobel Prize

2 Americans Win Medicine Nobel for Discovering Receptors for Heat and Touch

The 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has been awarded to two U.S.-based scientists for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch, the award-giving body announced on Oct. 4. The findings of California-based scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian focused on the field of somatosensation, more commonly known as tactile sense, or the body’s ability…


Chinese Regime Says Wuhan Lab Scientists ‘Should Be Awarded the Nobel Prize’

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson claims the Wuhan lab researchers deserve the Nobel Prize just as calls renew for a harder look into whether the virus that causes COVID-19 could have leaked from the facility. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, hosts China’s first P4 laboratory, the highest biosafety designation that allows it to…