Upsot: "This year's prize deals with cells and sensibility"<br/> <br />The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces that two American scientists are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry.<br/> <br />Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 1.2 million US dollar prize for discovering the inner working of G-protein coupled receptors.<br/> <br />Their research is helping to develop better drugs with less side effects to fight illnesses such as diabetes, cancer and depression.<br/> <br />The two scientists were not present at the news conference, but expressed their surprise at hearing the news.<br/> <br />Chemistry was the first of this year's Nobel Prizes - a series of awards that first began in 1901 in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
