The Nobel Foundation recognized two imnunologos for their advances in cancer therapy
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James P immunologists. Allison, MD Anderson Cancer Center (EE. UU), together with Tasaku Honjo, University of Kyoto (Japan), were recognized today by the Nobel Foundation with the Prize in Medicine for their discoveries in cancer therapy by inhibiting negative immune regulation. The academics studied in mice the inhibition of certain proteins that regulate the immune system acting as a blocker of it and thus allow the body to protect itself against cancer..