Japan's Tasuku Honjo wins Nobel medicine prize for work on anticancer care

Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo and American James Allison won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discoveries leading to new approaches in fighting cancer.The 76-year-old Honjo -- a professor emeritus at Kyoto University known for his discovery of a protein that contributed to the development of an immunotherapeutic drug against cancer -- is the 26th Japanese Nobel prize winner.Honjo and Allison, 70, a professor at the University of Texas, "showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the treatment of cancer…READ FULL ARTICLE