The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine represents a monumental breakthrough that will revolutionize healthcare. These three scientists discovered regulatory T cells and the Foxp3 gene, solving the mystery of how our immune system avoids attacking our own bodies. Their work is already spurring life-saving treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases and transplant medicine.
Nobel Prizes celebrate only narrow slices of science while ignoring vast fields like ecology, climate and geology that are equally important. The awards systematically exclude hundreds of researchers who contribute to discoveries, recognizing only lab heads. This creates harmful bias that overlooks women, people of color and scientists from developing nations.
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