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Protein Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry

Posted by timothy on from the moving-the-bits-around dept.

nucal writes "The 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Rod MacKinnon and Peter Agree for their work on proteins that form ion and water channels in cell membranes. In particular, solving the structure of potassium channels was a major achievement, since this was the first multispan transmembrane protein structure to be solved by X-ray crystallography. There is also structural information on aquaporins (water channels) as well."

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  1. WHOOSH by Atario · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...goes the sound of this news flying at Mach 1.3 over the heads of 99.99% of everyone reading it.

    Well, at least here on Slashdot I expect people (read: us geeks) will gape in awe instead of happily ignoring it.

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