James Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel for cancer research

Researchers from the USA and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that help the body marshal its cellular troops to attack invading cancers.

James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University will share the prize, worth more than $1 million, for 2018. Their parallel work concerned proteins that act as brakes on the immune system.