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Friday, October 31, 2025
TopicAutoimmune diseases

Topic: Autoimmune diseases

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists who discovered the immune system’s ‘peacekeepers’

Osaka University professor Shimon Sakaguchi, Princeton PhD student Mary E. Brunkow, and US-based Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy director Fred Ramsdell win the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Scientists find ‘dial’ in brain that controls immune system, hope for autoimmune disease treatment

Study by Columbia University neuroimmunologists published in Nature shows brain maintains balance between molecular immune system signals that induce inflammation & those that decrease it. 

Psoriasis to vitiligo—Autoimmune skin diseases can be stressful. Here is what you can do

Discuss with your doctor how to best take high-potency topical steroids, and try not to continue applying them beyond three weeks at a stretch.

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India’s exit from Ayni airbase reveals New Delhi’s power projection limits. A key location lost

Ayni’s origins lie in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when the United States invaded Afghanistan and the international order briefly seemed open to new alignments.

What the MiG-21 taught me

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

France keen to make Rafale jets in India, boost not just defence but people-to-people ties, says envoy

In a chat with ThePrint newsroom, French Ambassador Thierry Mathou indicated talks are on between French firm Safran & Indian govt for joint design & manufacture of AMCA engine.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.