Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio of scientists for discovering how the immune system is kept in check

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 ...

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

Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.
Healio

Nasal mRNA therapy increases anti-viral cytokine in healthy people, candidate in asthma

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interferon lambda-encoding messenger RNA drug ETH47 was generally safe in healthy individuals. A phase 2a trial ...

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for discovering how immune system is kept in check

Their discoveries have advanced treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases and may improve transplant success.

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their collective work in the discovery of specialized immune cells that roam ...
Nature

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

How enzymes 'dance' while they work, and why that's important

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new structure determination method using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy which shows how different parts of complex ...

DNA nanospring that measures cellular motor power could yield improved disease diagnosis

Cells all require the transport of materials to maintain their function. In nerve cells, a tiny motor made of protein called KIF1A is responsible for that. Mutations in this protein can lead to ...
Science News

Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking itself wins medicine Nobel

Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the cells’ role in autoimmune disease.
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT researchers use machine learning to better understand the pathways of disease

RIT computing students and Professor Rui Li are working on a National Institutes of Health-funded project to use AI in disease pathway discovery.

Sperm microRNAs may enable transmission of exercise benefits from fathers to children

In a recent study published in Cell Metabolism, a research paper provides the first evidence that sperm microRNAs act as carriers of epigenetic information, enabling the intergenerational transmission ...
University of California, Davis

Newly Recognized Pathway Could Protect People with Diabetes from Hypoglycemia

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar. Understanding these feedback loops could improve the lives of people with ...