Unleashing the immune system to fight cancer
For more than a century, scientists searched in vain for way to use the immune system to treat cancer. That dream is now a reality.
For more than a century, scientists searched in vain for way to use the immune system to treat cancer. That dream is now a reality.
Featuring medicine laureate Katalin Karikó
Featuring medicine laureate Sir Paul Nurse
Featuring peace laureate Maria Ressa
Featuring Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Center for Civil Liberties
Interview with Svante Pääbo
Interview with Esther Duflo
Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
Photo: Public domain.
A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
© The Nobel Committe for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
Figure 4. Depiction of Claudia Goldin as a detective with her dog Pika.
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