PBS NEWS HOUR Interview of Nobel winner (The Nobel folks reward the scientist working in areas that may help our problem-so there is hope)

Two biochemists were honored with the Nobel prize for chemistry today in recognition of their discoveries of the tiny channels that let vital substances move through cell walls. Margaret Warner talks to Peter Agre, one of the prize recipients…

Computerized transcription…. Video on site given below

MARGARET WARNER: You seem to be doing pretty well. What can this discovery of yours and also Mr. MacKinnon's lead to, sort of medically, clinically practically?
DR. PETER AGRE: In the short-term it's not obvious within the next calendar year we're going to be able to treat diseases differently, but knowledge is often very important to the development of new therapeutics and I think they're very good indications, certainly Dr. MacKinnon's work on the ion channels that arrhythmias of heart, different neurological functions, may benefit from drug therapies, we can identify inhibitors or stimulators of some of the ion channels and the same is true of the water channels.

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Hi Sam --- I posted an item yesterday concerning an article in the N.Y. Times on 10/9, page A20, concerning that same research. The article goes into quite a bit of detail about the ion channels and how they discovered how potassium, sodium, and water are transported into the cells. You might want to check it out.

Would there be a transcript anywhere for those of us in the UK

Fran