How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability plays an important role in anemia, cancer, stroke, infection, wound healing, and myocardial infarction.
Seemingly spontaneous remissions from terminal cancers are known to occur on rare occasions. For over 100 years, this observation has spurred scientists to attempt to engage the immune system to fight cancer, with little success. But on October 1, the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine was awarded to two scientists whose seminal discoveries...