The medicine Nobel Prize goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance

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A screen showing the photos of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, who on Monday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were honored for research into how the body helps the immune system avoid attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.

(Image credit: Claudio Bresciani)

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