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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. Protein? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I think of protein, I think of DNA. And when I think of DNA, I think of, well, you know.

  2. Those dirty Nobel jurors by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bet they promised them the prize if Peter Agreed to show them McKinnon's Rod, the dirty Swedish bastards ...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Will a woman want my protien shake? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    because I'm not circumcised. No girl wants me. Its true. I make them puke because of my uncircumcised penis.

    Thanks.

  4. Re:Yeah right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stratjakt, you're so inane you managed to post over 3000 comments on Slashdot without ever getting the +1 karma bonus.

    When will you shut your piehole?

  5. Re:In slashdot terms.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Naah, a beowulf cluster of cells is called a brain. That's definitely not you ...