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Medicine Nobel goes to trio for immune system discoveries

Three scientists who helped uncover how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders while recognizing our own tissues as a friend that should be spared — won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday.

The award went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around what’s known as peripheral immune tolerance, work that the Nobel committee touted as deepening our unde

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