Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body\u2019s immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and cancer treatments, won the 2011 Nobel prize for medicine yesterday.<\/p>\n
American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann, who studied the first stages of immune responses to attack, share the $1.5 million (\u20ac1.1 million) award with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, whose discovery of dendritic cells in the 1970s is key to understanding the body\u2019s next line of defence against disease.<\/p>\n
However, within minutes of the award being announced, a problem arose. It emerged that one of the three, Mr Steinman<\/strong>, had died of cancer just three days before he could be told of his award. A sufferer of pancreatic cancer, he used his own discoveries to extend his life.<\/p>\n Colleagues of Mr Steinman (68) at Rockefeller University in New York called it a \u201cbittersweet\u201d honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nobel laureate scientist dies days before award Three scientists who unlocked secrets of the body\u2019s immune system, opening doors to new vaccines and cancer treatments, won the 2011 Nobel prize … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5380,207,27,829,5381,1329],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-2011-nobel-prize-for-medicine","tag-current-affairs","tag-gk","tag-quiz","tag-ralph-steinman","tag-trivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}