2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine Honors Discoveries That Unlocked the Body’s Immune “Brakes”

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The Announcement The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their pioneering discoveries that explain how the immune system learns to restrain itself — a process scientists call peripheral immune tolerance. The trio’s work uncovered the biological mechanisms that stop the immune … Read more

Ambros & Ruvkun’s MicroRNA Breakthrough Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine

October 7, 2024 – The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has announced the joint winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been honored for their revolutionary discovery of microRNA (not to confuse with mRNA) and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This year’s Nobel Prize … Read more

New AI Tool Accurately Predicts Colon Cancer Treatment Response

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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and National Cheng Kung University have developed a new artificial intelligence model to assist doctors in Colon Cancer treatment. Colorectal cancer, the second deadliest cancer worldwide, claims 1 million lives every year. This makes it crucial to have a tool that can help save lives by providing accurate and personalized … Read more