Scientist who graduated from Portland high school wins Nobel Prize in medicine | NYGazet

The Nobel Prize winner initially ignored a call from Sweden early Monday, believing it was a spam call.

A molecular biologist who grew up in Portland is one of the three researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. Mary E. Brunkow graduated from St. Mary... [6591 chars]