Japanese scientist Sakaguchi Shimon shares this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering one of the body's most important set of "brakes." ...

The prize honored discoveries that defined peripheral immune tolerance through regulatory T cells (Tregs) and the FOXP3 gene, ...

Mary E. Brunkow Ph.D., a 1983 graduate of UW who now works in Seattle, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. News of ...

Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own ...

E. John Wherry, director of Penn's Colton Center for Autoimmunity, spoke with the Inquirer about the future of immunology ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists who elucidated the "brake" mechanism of the human immune system. On October 6 (local time), the Nobel Committee at ...

The discovery of cells that prevent the immune system from hurting the body is paving the way for new treatments for ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Their work ...

For many conditions including immune-related ones, genetics often explains only a small fraction of the differences between ...

As humanity sets its sights on returning to the Moon and venturing to Mars, protecting the travelers who make the journey is ...