Nobel Prize

Animations Animation: Water channels in cell membranes I Usage of these pictures and movies are subject to permission from Drs. Emad Tajkhorshid () and Klaus Schulten (). A reference to the original source is required (Tajkhorshid, E., Nollert, P., Jensen, M.O., Miercke, L.J., O’Connell, J., Stroud, R.M., and Schulten, K. (2002). Science 296, 525-530). Phone:…

German 8. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, dass der Nobelpreis in Chemie des Jahres 2003 „für Entdeckungen bezüglich der Kanäle in Zellmembranen“ verliehen wird, mit der einen Hälfte des Preises an Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, U.S.A. „für die Entdeckung von Wasserkanälen“ und mit der anderen Hälfte an Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Peter Agre Peter Agre is Professor of Biological Chemistry and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA.   Water channels: The cell leaks like a sieve     How does water actually pass through the cell membrane? The…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize to Peter Agre “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon…

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Cells signal with salt!     As you read this brief text enormous numbers of ion channels are opening and closing in your brain, of the order of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015). The amount of ions moving in the channels during this time would correspond…

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Swedish 8 oktober 2003 Allt levande består av celler. En enda människa har lika många celler som stjärnorna i en galax, ungefär 100 miljarder. De olika cellerna, t.ex. muskelceller, njurceller och nervceller, samverkar i ett intrikat system i var och en av oss. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi, Peter Agre och Roderick MacKinnon, har bidragit till…

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