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Brunkow, Ramsdell, & Sakaguchi | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

from Revise and Resubmit - The Mayukh Show · host Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:32:14Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:54:33Swedish Podcast Starts at 01:15:38Japanese Podcast Starts at 01:40:52ReferenceNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Mon. 6 Oct 2025. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/summary/Press Release https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/Popular Information https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-information/Advanced Information https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/advanced-information/‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Connect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/Welcome to 🎙 Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where remarkable science gets the story it deserves 💡✨. Today’s episode isn’t just about important research—it’s about prestige. The kind of prestige that wins the 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025.Announced just hours ago by the Nobel Committee at Karolinska Institutet 📜🧬, this year’s award goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. That’s right—the secret squad your immune system deploys to stop it from turning on you, the unsung heroes called regulatory T cells. 🛡🧫Think about it—the body’s immune army is powerful enough to fight thousands of invading microbes every day. But left unchecked, that same army could destroy its own homeland: you. Their work showed how the immune system stays in balance, preventing autoimmune diseases, inspiring new cancer treatments, and opening doors to more successful organ transplants.From Sakaguchi swimming against the research tide in 1995 to Brunkow and Ramsdell cracking the mystery gene 🧬 Foxp3 in 2001, this is a saga of curiosity, persistence, and science at its most elegant. 🌊🔍 Together, they didn’t just rewrite textbooks—they launched an entire field.So here’s your reminder, science lovers—hit subscribe on Revise and Resubmit over on Spotify 🎧, jump onto the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 📺, and catch us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 📱🎙. That’s where the world’s sharpest science stories keep coming, week after week.And now… as you marvel at this immune system masterpiece… here’s the question we’ll dig into today:🤔 If your immune system is a fortress, who’s really standing at the gate deciding which visitor gets in—and which gets kicked out?

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:32:14Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:54:33Swedish Podcast Starts at 01:15:38Japanese Podcast Starts at 01:40:52ReferenceNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2025. Mon. 6 Oct 2025. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/summary/Press Release https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/Popular Information https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-information/Advanced Information https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/advanced-information/‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Connect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/Welcome to 🎙 Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where remarkable science gets the story it deserves 💡✨. Today’s episode isn’t just about important research—it’s about prestige. The kind of prestige that wins the 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025.Announced just hours ago by the Nobel Committee at Karolinska Institutet 📜🧬, this year’s award goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. That’s right—the secret squad your immune system deploys to stop it from turning on you, the unsung heroes called regulatory T cells. 🛡🧫Think about it—the body’s immune army is powerful enough to fight thousands of invading microbes every day. But left unchecked, that same army could destroy its own homeland: you. Their work showed how the immune system stays in balance, preventing autoimmune diseases, inspiring new cancer treatments, and opening doors to more successful organ transplants.From Sakaguchi swimming against the research tide in 1995 to Brunkow and Ramsdell cracking the mystery gene 🧬 Foxp3 in 2001, this is a saga of curiosity, persistence, and science at its most elegant. 🌊🔍 Together, they didn’t just rewrite textbooks—they launched an entire field.So here’s your reminder, science lovers—hit subscribe on Revise and Resubmit over on Spotify 🎧, jump onto the YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 📺, and catch us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 📱🎙. That’s where the world’s sharpest science stories keep coming, week after week.And now… as you marvel at this immune system masterpiece… here’s the question we’ll dig into today:🤔 If your immune system is a fortress, who’s really standing at the gate deciding which visitor gets in—and which gets kicked out?

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