Stockholm (AFP) – Nobel season opens with speculation rife over fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden’s prospects for the peace prize and whether the first award announced Monday — the medicine prize — could go to research into chili, heat and pain.US physiologist David Julius has been touted by Sweden’s leading daily Dagens Nyheter to win the medicine prize for discovering that pain receptors have the same reaction to pain, temperature and the spicy component of chili.”David Julius’s discoveries have given us a much deeper understanding of how feeling works and completely new possibilities to produce drugs against chronic pain,” …read more
Source: Business Insider
