autoimmunity, immunology

The presence of a particular set of RNAs in the blood forewarns of an onset of severe symptoms and points to the cells involved.

By revealing that animals could develop immune responses against their own tissues, the physician-scientist established an entirely new field of science.

Antigens originating from the microbiome may trigger an autoimmune response.

T cells modified to target disease-contributing B cells improved survival in two mouse models of the autoimmune disease.

Researchers find that it’s not just high-risk genes, but how children’s bodies respond to their own intestinal microbiota that relates to future diagnoses of type 1 diabetes.

A look at how gluten affects patients with celiac disease

Female mice lacking an immune receptor are better than males at fighting certain viral infections.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2016 issue of The Scientist.

Training the immune system to cease fire on native tissues could improve outcomes for autoimmune patients, but clinical progress has been slow.

A mouse study suggests a mechanism by which severe infections during pregnancy increase autism risk. 

Researchers identify a subset of proinflammatory cytokine-producing B cells that may spark multiple sclerosis-related inflammation.  

Reviving a decades-old hypothesis of autoimmunity

Scientists discover that cancer can drive the autoimmune disorder scleroderma.

Editor accused of fraud leaves post; the good and the bad of gut microbiota; bacterial gene shuffle; legal restrictions hamper illicit drug research; antibodies and autism

Early exposure to microbes shapes the mammalian immune system by subduing inflammatory T cells.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in immunology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000.