The 2021 Nobel Prize for medicine helps unravel mysteries about how the body senses temperature and pressure
- Written by Steven D. Munger, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida
David Julius, one of the two recipients of the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize, used the active component in chile peppers to study how the brain senses heat.Anton Eine/EyeEm via Getty ImagesHumans rely on our senses to tell us about the world. Which way is that waterfall? Is it day or night? Is that food fresh or spoiled?
Such questions are harder to...