I love how Nobel Prize always have a "popular information" with nice layman description of what was discovered and why it was important. From the sidebar: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-info...
There's usually two pieces, a short one that can be taken as is for the general press and another which goes more in depth at a university level I would say.
There are actually three
The press release https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-releas...
The popular science article https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-info...
And an advanced scientific paper usually written by the members of the commitee https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025/10/advanced-medicine...
And then later on there's of course the recipient's Nobel lecture, most of which are fantastic.
Indeed!
It's a win for nominative determinism. The name Shimon, in Japanese, directly translates to something like "Determined Scholar."
It's also a fairly weird and old fashioned name. The sort of thing that would have been in style 120 years ago. (Meiji and early Taisho era.) Japanese names today are usually less literal.
His name could be interpreted as "aspiring to be a scholar". I guess he's done an exceptional job living up to it.
Very excited to live in a timeline where autoimmune diseases could be cured. 40 people are already in remission from Lupus in a trial conducted last year.
In the past here on HN, someone spoke of a set of books that were an incredible resource on the body’s immune response. Does anyone know which books those were? I’m assuming they will get an update to include info on T-reg.
As a general introduction I quite like this one: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/immune-a-journey-int...
These discoveries are old enough to be in the textbooks already.
Not sure what would be good popular science books. There is quite a lot on the immune system in the Alberts (Molecular Biology of the Cell), but that is maybe too much without solid biology background knowledge. The typical textbook is the Janeway (Immunology), but that's certainly too much.
What I liked as an introductory textbook in general was Campbell Biology, but that covers essentially all of Biology. There is a chapter on the immune system as well.
All those books are horribly expensive in the US, and still quite expensive in other countries, though.
I don’t know the post you’re referring to but I highly recommend How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac. It explains the interesting parts without getting bogged down in the details of every signalling pathway, but without dumbing things down too much.
“How the immune system works”, Lauren Sompayrac
Ah it's the Nobel Prize week! If anyone curious about this week's schedule:
Tuesday: physics. Wednesday: chemistry. Thursday: literature. Friday: peace. Monday: economics.
obligatory comment about how economics one isn't a Nobel prize.
Next Monday also isn’t in this week so it all works out.
The peace prize can't come soon enough. Trump is certainly going to throw a fit
The best take I saw was giving it to USAID
Is it seven or eight wars he ended this term? I imagine if he could just remember at least two then he’d be a favorite for the prize.
He's starting wars in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Trump told the military last week, "This is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war too. It's a war from within."
Was there ever a clear exception stating that you're ineligible for a Nobel in regards to stopping a war that you yourself started?
The Peace Prize has had quite a few weird choices, like Kissinger when that simply meant the USA would stop participating in the Vietnamese civil war (and to be generous putting a stop to USA bombing campaigns that Kissinger advocated in Vietnam and surrounding countries) or Barack Obama for giving a few speeches after less than a year in office. So it's not out of the question but it's hard to see the logic behind Trump getting one now.
Here are the current favorites accross the betting sites, I mean Trump has a decent chance
https://files.catbox.moe/xc1ik1.png
(NATO is a funny one too lol)
Betting sites set their odds to maximise their revenue, not reality ;)
Polymarkets currently has him at 3%
https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2025?t...
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Why is Firefix blocking it? Is HSTS somehow bad?
Oh there's something with their certificate
holy fuck people will bet on pretty much anything I guess huh?
I bet you they won't.
I will take that bet. It's very easy for me to win.
Yes it is sad that the whole Nobel prize coverage will be just a background to a week talking about Trump, whether he wins or not :(
He won't win. How could the committee look at him, while he is actively celebrating killing people off the coast of Venezuela (whether they are smuggling drugs or not) and give him the Peace Prize.
I guess it depends on whether or not the committee members plan on visiting the US anytime soon.
Trump isn't good enough at blackmail. Netanyahu, on the other hand...
I don't think anyone seriously believes he will win. Despite making up all kind of wars and conflicts he claims to have solved, there hasn't been any real peace coming from him, yet. Maybe Gaza turns out to something real, but it's not done yet, and I kinda doubt they decide on these prices on a short whim. And if development in the USA continues like at the moment, I doubt he will be considered next year. It will be just one conflict cancelling out one peace.
> anyone seriously believes
The brain donors at NPR Morning Edition, the mission of which is to remind me daily to never donate to NPR, spent some airtime this morning discussing Gaza peace talks and how they are motivated by and leading to a Trump Nobel.
but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s
Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and then turns around and does very hellish things, rips up Aid programs, impose one sided tariffs without caring about your allies, belittle a president desperately trying to fight for his countries sovereignty, mafia style negotiations for said country minerals without a security guarantee in order to send weapons, trash nato allies repeatedly, taunt allies that you wont honor security guarantees if they dont do x , remove historical names for no good reason from various government objects , alienate out entire class of people with your rhetoric while using a platform thats supposed to be bipartisan, deport & arrest people while bypassing judges as much as you can
>but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s
Ugh giving me flashbacks to the “the office will change him” arguments. Can’t believe people actually said that out loud.
If he somehow got the peace prize as he balloons a department sneaking around in plain clothes with their faces covered rounding people up at work and terrifying/ripping families apart then the prize is truly a joke. Luckily there’s no way he’s getting it.
Oh well, the comments will also be filled with complaints about Kissinger, Obama, Teresa, Arafat... and how the prize therefore somehow is worthless. 2020 thread has 30 comments mentioning Trump, 20 comments mentioning Obama.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728142
Instead of celebrating the winners, some people just want to complain.
Both are valid topics.
Sure, but is it worth discussing again and again and again? To me it's like beating a dead horse. Every year, the same discussion here. Drowns the more interesting discussion about the actual winners.
I get your point.
It is possible, however, that it's different people each year having roughly the same conversation.
But this is true of many topics.
> Instead of celebrating the winners
Well.. assuming the winner isn't a war criminal we can celebrate at least :P
First pattern that comes into mind after reading about a gene called "Foxp3" and immune targets:
Man frantically shakes whole body, then raises dramatically his fist and screams: - FOX...
