Today is the birthday of Susumu Tonegawa, who was born on September 6, 1939.  Tonegawa received the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine – the first Japanese scientist to do so – for discovering how antibodies are made. Antibodies are proteins created by our immune systems to fight pathogens (harmful agents) such as bacteria … Continue reading Susumu Tonegawa and the Creation of Antibodies