Peter Agre, director of the Malaria Research Institute and co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is quick to give others much of the credit for his success. "It's the people I met along ...

When Agre and his research team noticed the protein they would later name aquaporin while conducting an investigation of blood proteins, they thought it was a contaminant. Nearly two decades later, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I fear I have already offended Professor ...