2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Molecular Matters
Michael Edmonds • Oct 11, 2012 •
This year the Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University in North Carolina and Brian Kobilka of Standford University, California for their discovery of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR’s). This awards follows decades of work by Lefkowitz and Kobilka and their colleagues. In 1968, Lefkowitz used hormones tagged with radioactive iodine to track them to … Read More