Nobel Prize in Medicine: Fighters on the Invisible Front. Immune...
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The body's powerful immune system needs to be regulated, otherwise it can attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their groundbreaking discoveries regarding peripheral immune tolerance, which prevents the immune system from harming the body.
Every day, our immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes that try to enter our body. They all look different, and many of them have developed similarities to human cells as a form of camouflage.
So how does the immune system determine what to attack and what to protect?
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