Cold Comfort: How an Ion Channel Activates Our Response to Temperature
Cold Comfort: How an Ion Channel Activates Our Response to Temperature
How our bodies sense our environment and react to it is a big question, and how we answer it can have important implications for drug development.
That's why Seok-Yong Lee, PhD, professor of biochemistry and cell biology at the Duke School of Medicine, has been on a quest to understand how our bodies sense and respond to temperature. Specifically, Lee studies ion channel activation and its role in our sensitivity to cold through temperature and menthol and hot through temperature and capsaicin.
