FOXP3 plays a central role in regulatory T cells. The discussion explains these cells as regulators of immune responses against the body’s own tissues.
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1:55:03We're staying in 2001 with something we talked about recently as well in our Nobel Prize episode, discovery of the FOX P3 gene and T-reg Regulation. Yes, this is Mary Bronau and Fred Ramdell. They were working at the Darwin Molecular Corporation and um Celtech Cyrocience in Washington. They identified the FOX P3 gene. That's the master transcription factor that governs regulatory tea cells, which is the stuff that regulates um autoimmune responses, the response of the immune system to the self. Um huge deal. They won the 2025
1:55:47Nobel Prize in Medicine and we covered that in detail. So check out that episode. >> It was the the what do we say? The military police. The police of the police. >> Yeah, the police of the police. That's right. >> That's that's the concept here. Staying in 2001 with the first direct detection of an exoplanet atmospheres. One of my favorite things we've talked about too is how we actually do Yes. >> uh atmosphere detection for exoplanets. >> Yeah. And this is the first guy to do it. He was um David Shono at Caltech Harvard Smithsonian. He used the Hubble Space Telescope to look at