Roderick MacKinnon, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at The Rockefeller University, is one of two scientists who were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded this morning to two American biochemists, for their discoveries about how water and salts move into and out of living cells. The discoveries hold ...

American medical-doctors-turned-scientists Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won this year's Nobel chemistry prize, announced this morning, for studies of tiny channels in cell membranes that in ...

"Why did nature come up with such a structural plan?" ask Rockefeller University professor Roderick MacKinnon and colleagues in their Jan. 17 Nature cover article describing the three-dimensional ...

For this article, author Jennifer Fisher Wilson interviewed Roderick MacKinnon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at ...

Americans Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing how living cells control their intake of water and other substances. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels play an important role in modulating the electrical activity of cells, opening in response to changes in membrane voltage and allowing potassium ions to escape.

Over Brandeis’ short 75-year history, an astonishing number of alumni have made consequential scientific discoveries, many receiving the highest accolades in their fields, including the Nobel Prize.

Two distinct molecular subgroups of lobular carcinoma in situ associated with invasive lobular carcinoma. Background: In 2003, Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon were awarded the Nobel Prize in ...