{"id":35451,"date":"2025-10-06T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35451"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:25:20","slug":"nobel-prize-for-discovering-immune-security-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=35451","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize for discovering immune  security guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body&#8217;s own cells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The prize is shared by Japan&#8217;s Shimon Sakaguchi and US researchers Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">They discovered &#8220;security guards&#8221; that eliminate parts of the immune system that could attack the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Their work is being used to develop new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (\u00a3870,000).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Their discoveries have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases,&#8221; says Olle K\u00e4mpe, chair of the Nobel Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Nobel panel added: &#8220;Their discoveries have laid the foundation for a new field of research and spurred the development of new treatments, for example for cancer and autoimmune diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body&#8217;s own cells.The prize is shared by Japan&#8217;s Shimon Sakaguchi and US researchers Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell.They discovered &#8220;security guards&#8221; that eliminate parts of the immune system that could attack the body.Their work is being used to develop new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.The winners share a prize fund worth 11m Swedish kronor (\u00a3870,000).&#8221;Their discoveries have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases,&#8221; says Olle K\u00e4mpe, chair of the Nobel Committee.The Nobel panel added: &#8220;Their discoveries have laid the foundation for a new field of research and spurred the development of new treatments, for example for cancer and autoimmune diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35453,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35454,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35451\/revisions\/35454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}