Nobel medicine prize: how a hidden army in your body keeps you alive – and could help treat cancer

By learning to adjust these biological “brakes” with precision, medicine is entering a new era. Treatments inspired by these ...

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

Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body's own healthy cells. This careful equilibrium is ...

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 ...

This Seattle scientist just won a Nobel Prize. Here's what it's for

Mary Brunkow, who attended St. Mary's in Portland, produced research leading to new developments in treatments for cancers ...

How the Body Protects Itself from Its Own Immune System

Understanding Peripheral Immune Tolerance Peripheral immune tolerance is a mechanism by which the immune system prevents an overactive response to self-antigens, which are molecules produced by the ...