Americans win Nobel prize in medicine
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Your immune system is your body’s army. It fights off viruses, bacteria, and infections every day. Its elite soldiers are called T cells. Some T cells attack invaders directly, while others coordinate the fight like generals.
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By learning to adjust these biological “brakes” with precision, medicine is entering a new era. Treatments inspired by these discoveries are already improving lives and may, in time, transform how we prevent and treat disease across the spectrum, from autoimmunity to cancer.
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.