Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 for G protein-Coupled Receptors

         Robert Lefkowitz                                 Brian Kobilka

The 2012 Nobel prize in chemistry has gone to two US researchers whose work shed light on how the billions of cells in our body sense their environments.

Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, both of the US, will share the prize of 8m Swedish kronor (£750,000; $1.2m).

Their work focuses on what are called G protein-coupled receptors, a number of proteins that reach through cell walls.

Understanding how they work has been crucial to unravelling the complex network of signalling between cells.

More About them : www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2012/