How Does the Immune System Work

Nobel Prize, immune system

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system works. In separate projects, they identified the importance of T cells.

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How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

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Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Work On Immune System

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Nobel medicine prize awarded for key findings on immune system

American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday (October 6) for their discoveries in peripheral immune toleran...

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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to trio for discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance

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Nobel Prize for how immune system stops destructive rampage

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Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting this process could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.

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How does the immune system prepare for breastfeeding?

LA JOLLA (July 29, 2025)—Of the 3.6 million babies born in the United States each year, around 80 percent begin breastfeeding in their first month of life. Breastfeeding has known benefits for both mother and child, reducing maternal risk of breast and ...