1142: An Off-The-Grid Nobel Win, And Antibiotics In Ancient Microbes
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign invaders and not its own tissues and organs. But when the phone rang for Shimone Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow, and Fred Ramsdell, only two of them picked up. Host Ira Flatow talks with Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and scientific advisor at Sonoma Biotherapeutics. Plus, Ira talks with bioengineering professor César de la Fuente, who looks for solutions to the antibiotic resistance…
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