Nobel Prize

They understood how the immune system is kept in check The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune…

Swedish 6 oktober 2025 har beslutat tilldela Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin 2025 till: Mary E. BrunkowInstitute for Systems Biology,Seattle, USA Fred RamsdellSonoma Biotherapeutics,San Francisco, USA Shimon SakaguchiOsaka University,Osaka, Japan “för deras upptäckter rörande perifer immuntolerans” De upptäckte hur immunförsvaret hålls i schack Kroppens kraftfulla immunförsvar måste regleras, annars kan det angripa våra egna organ.…

English) 6 October 2025 has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to: Mary E. BrunkowInstitute for Systems Biology,Seattle, USA Fred RamsdellSonoma Biotherapeutics,San Francisco, USA Shimon SakaguchiOsaka University,Osaka, Japan “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance” They discovered how the immune system is kept in check The body’s powerful immune system…

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Interview with the 2019 laureate in physiology or medicine Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, 6 December 2019. Did you always plan on studying medicine?  Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe: I can remember the day of choosing medicine. The headmaster, rather austere figure, came into the chemistry classroom and said Ratcliffe, could I have a word? And I…

Nobel Prize Conversations “When we’re doing genetics, we are tapping into that mythic power of change.”  In this conversation with molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, we discover his scientific journey and find out that the world of genetics still has many fields left to explore.  A natural storyteller, Ruvkun also shares some of his favourite tales…