Protein Researchers Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry

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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Re:Oh America

[NanoGator]

" God Bless America , and thank God I don't have to live there."

God Bless America, we're full, go home."

Off-topic? Bummer, I found it amusing. Oh well, guess it was off-topic.

Re:Oh America

[moonbender]

You seem to be settling for mediocrity. Not having a tyrant is great, but a non-working democratic progress because more than half of the population entitled to voting doesn't care either way isn't exactly the optimum either. (Or maybe you would rather say, it might not be what your founding fathers had in mind.) Or maybe you don't think very low participation in elections is a problem - I do think it is, but I'd rather not continue discussing it here since I already have a bad conscience for posting twice in this thread, even as AC. :)

I'm not saying that America is a terrible country at all, and I'm not saying Europe (where I am from, like you didn't already guess) is better or worse. In fact, I would say Europe is mostly the same - maybe less extreme in all regards, good and bad, or maybe simply 5 to 25 years behind America in many developments, including the bad ones.

Note also that I'm not the original poster, who wrote up that list, if that wasn't clear. I don't usually start wildly off-topic flamebaits on Slashdot. ;)