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Science 15 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5695, pp. 427 - 428
DOI: 10.1126/science.1105624
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Essays on Science and Society

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EPPENDORF ESSAY WINNER:
Deconstructing C. elegans Sensory Mechanotransduction

Miriam B. Goodman

Much important information reaches us through the sense of touch, yet little is known about the protein machinery that converts mechanical energy into electrical responses at neurons. In her prize-winning essay, Miriam Goodman describes work aimed at understanding mechanotransduction in C. elegans. She describes characterization of an ion channel complex that is likely at the core of the transduction complex and gated by mechanical energy.

The author is in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: mbgoodman{at}stanford.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)