Illustration and books
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- 2025.019.000
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- Illustration and books
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This picture is a version of an illustration that Akane Shimizu shared on the media platform X (formerly Twitter) after it was announced that Shimon Sakaguchi would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2025. She later gave this signed copy to Sakaguchi, who donated it to the Nobel Prize Museum.
The protagonist in the drawing is a “regulatory T cell” stopping a “killer T cell” from attacking other body cells.
The books are Japanese and English copies of Shimizu’s はたらく細胞（Hataraku-Saibo) “Cells at Work!”, a manga series where the body cells are anthropomorphised. The series was later animated and was a critical and popular success. The series has made one of the key concepts in Sakaguchi’s research, “the regulatory T cell”, a household name among Japanese kids and helped spark interest in science and immunology. For Sakaguchi, the series symbolises the link between scientific discovery and social commitment.
Shimon Sakaguchi donated the illustration and the books to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2025. - Pristagare
- Shimon Sakaguchi
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