Each year, six Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economics, literature ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered how our bodies keep this ...

In cancer patients, the health of the thymus—a key part of the body's immune system—is associated with the outcomes these ...

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells ...

In 2006 immunologist and 2025 Nobel prize winner Shimon Sakaguchi co-wrote an article in Scientific American that now feels ...

The health of the thymus - a key part of the body's immune system - is associated with cancer patients' outcomes to immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment, according to a ground-breaking international ...

Talha Burki speaks with Fred Ramsdell, Mary Brunkow, and Shimon Sakaguchi about their Nobel-winning discoveries in peripheral ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" ...

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have uncovered how a little-studied protein, TRAT1 (T Cell Receptor ...

The laureates’ work focused on a specialised immune cell called regulatory T cells which prevent the body from attacking itself. When this system fails, the consequences can be devastating. Autoimmune ...

Three scientists shed light on the immune system’s short-circuit that triggers 152 different diseases — the third most common ...

A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of ...