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How is the immune system kept in check? | Explained

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How is the immune system kept in check? | Explained

The story so far: The Nobel Prize season for 2025 began with the announcement of the Physiology or Medicine Prize on October 6. The three awardees — U.S.-based researchers, Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, and Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi — were chosen for their “discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” Their discovery enabled a fundamental understanding…

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Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic

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Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic

Penn Medicine scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA vaccines. | Photo Credit: Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine, Reuters The 2023 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American physician-scientist…

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