摘要
两位科学家首度利用免疫系统的力量对抗无药可医的癌症,因而赢得2018年度的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。美国研究者詹姆斯·艾利森与日本的本庶佑的发现,为罹患各种高致命性癌症的病患带来了长期存活的真正希望。这两位科学家在不同的实验室进行研究,也聚焦于免疫系统中不同的机制。
Two scientists who first harnessed the power of the immune system to fight incurable cancers have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.The discoveries made by American researcher 05 James P.Allison and Japan's Tasuku Honjo have brought real hope of long-term survival to patients with a wide range of highly lethal cancers.