Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win for work on preventing immune system harming body The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for their work on how the immune system is prevented from attacking the body. Mary E Brunkow, now at...
My dad, his ‘incurable’ disease, and hope at last – podcast
The Guardian journalist Josh Halliday talks about Huntington’s disease, the impact the rare inherited condition has had on his family and the hope there may now be a treatment For years, the Guardian north of England editor, Josh Halliday, had a secret, unknown even to his friends: that for more...
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off...