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 recipientsÂ…
Computerized transcriptionÂ…. 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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