Nobel Prize For Discovering Immune Security Guards

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James GallagherHealth and subject correspondent

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The Nobel Prize successful Physiology aliases Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explicate really nan immune strategy attacks dispute infections, but not nan body's ain cells.

The prize is shared by Japan's Shimon Sakaguchi and US researchers Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell.

They discovered "security guards" that destruct parts of nan immune strategy that could onslaught nan body.

Their activity is being utilized to create caller treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.

The winners stock a prize money worthy 11m Swedish kronor (£870,000).

"Their discoveries person been decisive for our knowing of really nan immune strategy functions and why we do not each create superior autoimmune diseases," says Olle Kämpe, chair of nan Nobel Committee.

The Nobel sheet added: "Their discoveries person laid nan instauration for a caller section of investigation and spurred nan improvement of caller treatments, for illustration for crab and autoimmune diseases."

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