Comparing Agre And Mackinnon

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All things alive are made of cells. We humans have way too many to count. All the cells cluster and act together in the way so that we can function normally. Thanks to Agre and MacKinnon we now have more knowledge over molecular machines such ass channels, gates, and valves.
The fact that water could go through the cell wall has always been a known thing, however, how the pores looked under function had been unknown. That is, until 1990 when Agre became the first to discover one. Chemical signals and ion currents are also passed from one cell to the next. In 1998, MacKinnon was able to show the world what an ion channel at atomic level look like. Both of their discoveries lead to more interests and findings in the areas of bio chemistry, biology,

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