Studying mice, researchers have discovered that roseolovirus can trigger autoimmunity in a previously unknown way: by disrupting the process by which immune cells learn to avoid targeting their own ...

Autoimmunity is an underlying cause of many diseases, including type I diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Crohn’s disease. The processes that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . van Trotsenburg and Mooij are pediatric endocrinologists at Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite massive studies representing millions of participants that demonstrate associations between COVID-19 and ...

Evidence of autoimmunity's origins uncovered via new approach Study opens pathway to better diagnosis, treatment of autoimmune diseases Date: December 7, 2022 Source: Washington University School of ...

Autoimmunity When our bodies are exposed to a virus — or any infection — it recognizes proteins and other molecules on the invading virus as “not us.” Scientists refer to this as an antigen. We then ...

Study in adults and children with aplastic anemia identifies parallel evolutionary pathways used by hematopoietic stem cells ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for certain cancers comes with important side effects such as cytokine release syndrome and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome. Use ...

Melanie See’s first bout of odd symptoms began in 2005. Suddenly she started sweating a lot. She rapidly lost 10 pounds. She got dizzy walking from the bedroom to the couch. She started lactating even ...