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Science Talk

Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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James P. Allison and and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery of inhibition of negative immune regulation, the basis of new drugs against cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Science talk will begin after this short message.

0:34.7

Hi, everyone. I'm Andrea Alfano.

0:36.9

And I'm Brian Stallard. And we're the hosts of

0:39.7

Bays Pares, the podcast about the power of genetic information from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

0:45.5

The stories we tell involve some big issues that may seem totally unrelated to genetics, like

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Stay tuned.

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I was trying to understand how T-cells worked.

1:03.6

We were in fact to figure out this one thing about this negative regulator.

1:07.2

I had this idea that if we just took that off, you know, maybe it would do a better job of

1:11.6

killing cancer cells. Sure enough, it works. James P. Allison, who was awarded a Nobel Prize

1:17.7

today, along with Tosku Hanjo. Allison was talking to a Nobel Assembly representative on the phone.

1:24.1

This is Scientific American Science Talk. I'm Steve Merski on October 1st, 2018.

1:30.4

Thomas Perlman, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly, made the announcement.

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