Chemistry

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003         The cell’s contact with the outer world     The wall that separates a cell from its surroundings – the membrane – is not an impermeable shell. It is pierced through by various sorts of channel. The channels consist of proteins, each with its…

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Biographical

Otto Paul Hermann Diels was born in Hamburg, Germany, on January 23, 1876. When he was two years of age the family moved to Berlin, where his father was appointed to a professorship. His early education, from 1882 to 1895, was at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium, Berlin. In 1895 he went to Berlin University where he…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003         Further Reading     WATER CHANNELS Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein by G.M. Preston, T.P. Carroll, W.B. Guggino, and P. Agre, Science 256 (1992), p. 385-387 Molecular Mechanisms for Human Diseases by P. Agre and D. Kozono,…

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