Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

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An international research consortium, led by scientists at VIB and UGent, has developed a new platform that could change how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Seattle scientist was among three who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their work on the human immune system. The ...

Researchers are edging closer to a universal antiviral drug, a single medicine that could treat every virus known to man.

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How does the same infection, say the flu or a cold, give some people mild symptoms and leave others suffering? Why do people develop autoimmune diseases? And will we ever be able to predict when—and ...