Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka of the US won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday.
The pair won the prize for identifying a class of cell receptor, yielding vital insights into how the body works at the molecular level. The big beneficiary of this fundamental work is medicine, the Nobel committee declared.
The pair were honoured for discovering a key component of cells called G-protein-coupled receptors and mapping how they work.
The receptors
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