Nobel Prize for Medicine, not just caresses. There is also pain

The Nobel Prize for Medicine a David Julius e Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries on skin receptors it is a hymn to life. The Stockholm Academy that awarded the prize wrote among the reasons that “Touch and human warmth were the sensations that we most missed during the pandemic”, but we must remember that pain is “a crucial element for the our survival “and that” the discovery of the receptors that regulate it was very important, even if today we take them for granted “.