{
  "id": 18056223,
  "title": "Susumu Tonegawa (1939–2026): A molecular biologist who transformed immunology and neuroscience",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/susumu-tonegawa-1939-2026-a-molecular-biologist-who-transformed",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-23T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2632673123?af=R"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 44, November 2026. Susumu Tonegawa transformed two fields of biology. His discovery of the genetic mechanism generating antibody diversity established the foundations of modern immunology and earned him the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Remarkably, he then ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}