2018 Nobel Prize in medicine is for tweaking our immune system to fight cancer
A series of remarkable scientific breakthroughs over the last century have made cancer a less deadly disease. This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to two scientists for one such advancement. James Allison, currently at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, and Kyoto University’s Tasuku Honjo were given the prize “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” Here’s what you need to know to understand why their research is so important.
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