What's the difference between a scurfy mouse and a scruffy mouse? A Nobel Prize
It’s been quite a week for one Seattle scientist, after getting an unexpected late-night call from a Swedish phone number last week.
That call turned out to bring good news: Dr. Mary Brunkow is sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
She’s being honored for research she did decades ago; work that would eventually loom large in developing ways to treat autoimmune disease and cancer.
We’ve asked Dr. Brunkow to reflect a bit on what that work looks like in hindsight, and what it means to share this honor…
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