Your immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that fight off infection. Your immune system can be affected by ...
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Trio of Researchers Awarded Nobel Prize for Groundbreaking Discovery of Immune Cells That Prevent Autoimmune Disease
Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi’s research revealed a new class of cells shaking up scientists’ ...
The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...
A trio of scientists — two of them American and one Japanese — have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries ...
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about the regulation of the human immune system, boosting the hunt for new treatments for ...
The laureates’ work focused on a specialised immune cell called regulatory T cells which prevent the body from attacking itself. When this system fails, the consequences can be devastating. Autoimmune ...
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