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Title
The winning channels.
Abstract
Focuses on the contributions of scientists Peter Agre of Johns Hopkins University and Roderick MacKinnon of Rockefeller University, in understanding how water molecules and ions are selectively transported across cell membranes, for which they won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Discovery of the water channel by Agre; Identification of the molecular entity that constitutes the water channel; Contributions of MacKinnon in the field of membrane protein crystallography.