TheTalas on Instagram: "The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded not for a new drug or a single experiment, but for a fundamental explanation of why the immune system usually does not destroy the body it is meant to protect. For decades, immunology focused on how immunity attacks. What was missing was a clear answer to the opposite question: how immunity learns restraint. The laureates — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi — solved this by uncovering the mechan

How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer

The Immune System's Secret: Why These Scientists Just Won the Nobel Prize 🥇 Your immune system is a superhero, built to attack viruses and bacteria. But here’s the terrifying truth: that same power can turn inward, attacking your own organs—a biological nightmare we call autoimmune disease. For decades, the mechanism that keeps your body from destroying itself was a mystery. This year’s Nobel laureates—Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—solved it by finding the "master switch"

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