04/04/2025
Nobel Prize | April 2025
“Your body uses a sense called proprioception to help you stay afoot. Sensory cells innervating your muscles inform your brain of your precise posture and place in space. Without this sense, you’d struggle to stay upright and balanced. When you find yourself on rocky ground, proprioception is especially useful.
My first months in the United States were, in a metaphorical sense, rocky. It wasn’t until years later, of course, that I learned about proprioception – a sense that, along with touch, my lab would help explain at the molecular level.”
- Ardem Patapoutian, who moved to the USA from war-torn Lebanon and shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 with David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Learn more about his research and life: https://bit.ly/41RssIV
“Your body uses a sense called proprioception to help you stay afoot. Sensory cells innervating your muscles inform your brain of your precise posture and place in space. Without this sense, you’d struggle to stay upright and balanced. When you find yourself on rocky ground, proprioception is especially useful.
My first months in the United States were, in a metaphorical sense, rocky. It wasn’t until years later, of course, that I learned about proprioception – a sense that, along with touch, my lab would help explain at the molecular level.”
- Ardem Patapoutian, who moved to the USA from war-torn Lebanon and shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 with David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Learn more about his research and life: https://bit.ly/41RssIV
