08/10/2025
Den princip som MELISA analyserar, grattis.
Our immune system’s “brakes” - and why this year’s nobel prize in matters.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine went to three scientists - Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi - for discovering how our immune system keeps itself in balance.
They found a special type of white blood cell called a regulatory T cell. Think of it as the brake pedal of your immune system: it stops your body from over-reacting or attacking its own healthy tissues.
That idea connects directly to MELISA testing, which measures how your immune cells (T cells) respond to metals or other environmental triggers that have bound to enzymes and proteins in your body. MELISA looks for an over-reaction; an immune memory that’s too strong.
The work by the prize winning scientists helps explain why that happens in some people: the “brake” cells aren’t doing their job properly.
Understanding those T-cells - both the accelerators and the brakes - is key to building healthier immune responses for all of us.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-information/
