Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon were awarded the 2003 prize in chemistry for discovering and elucidating the structure of water and ion channels in the cell membrane, work that may one day aid in ...
In 1986, Roderick MacKinnon ’78, H’05, faced a professional crisis ... He won the Nobel for work that revealed the structure of ion channels, openings in cell membranes that enable ions (atoms or ...
Today it seems self-evident that neurons make their electrical signals by opening gates of water-filled pores (ion channels) in the plasma membrane. But it was not always so. Remarkably ...
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