Nobel Prize, immune system
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Three scientists who uncovered how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders while recognizing our own tissues as a friend — won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday.
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From single cells to complex creatures: New study points to origins of animal multicellularity
Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange themselves into a variety of tissues and organs, such ...
Researchers propose that placozoans, one of the simplest kinds of animals, may contain the blueprint for the neurons of more complex creatures. By Sam Jones For hundreds of millions of years, pancake-shaped animals about the size of a sharp pencil tip have ...
Scrawled X’s and O’s dance across the whiteboard behind Hawa Racine Thiam. At first glance, they look similar to drawings from a football playbook. But Thiam is no football coach, and those doodles don’t depict players — they represent cells and ...
Cancer is a disease that causes abnormal cells to reproduce and spread to other parts of the body, which can result in tumors or damage to the immune system that may become fatal. Healthy cells follow a cycle of growing, dividing, and dying. Cancer cells ...