A regrettable mistake in the award of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the omission of Gheorghe Benga, the first discoverer of the water channel protein in the red blood cell membrane.
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Laboratory of Physiology, Iassy Branch of The Romanian Academy, Iassy, Romania. ihaulica@yahoo.com
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