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A Geneticist's Journey From a Lupus Victory to a Murder Case Verdict
Carola Vinuesa’s research has illuminated the genetics of lupus and helped to exonerate a mother falsely accused of murdering her four children. 
A Geneticist's Journey From a Lupus Victory to a Murder Case Verdict
A Geneticist's Journey From a Lupus Victory to a Murder Case Verdict

Carola Vinuesa’s research has illuminated the genetics of lupus and helped to exonerate a mother falsely accused of murdering her four children. 

Carola Vinuesa’s research has illuminated the genetics of lupus and helped to exonerate a mother falsely accused of murdering her four children. 

autoimmunity

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A Stranger to Oneself: The Mystery of Fetal Microchimerism
Hannah Thomasy, PhD | Jul 22, 2024 | 10 min read
During pregnancy, fetal cells invade maternal tissues and can persist for decades, but the effects of these non-self cells remain largely obscure.
A Gut Feeling About Parkinson’s Disease
Zunnash Khan | Jan 25, 2024 | 3 min read
CD4 T cells mediate gut symptoms that indicate early Parkinson’s disease.
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The Extra X: How the Sex Chromosome Affects Autoimmunity Risk
Kamal Nahas, PhD | Sep 19, 2023 | 4 min read
What underlies the uneven burden of autoimmunity between the sexes has remained a mystery. Now, scientists found clues by turning to a key player on the X chromosome.
Spatial Multiomics Reveal Microbiome-Linked T Cell Modulations in Human Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Spatial Multiomics Reveal Microbiome-Linked T Cell Modulations in Human Graft-Versus-Host Disease
The Scientist | Sep 5, 2023 | 1 min read
In this webinar, Benton Berigan will highlight the value of combining multimodal data, including spatial information, to understand complex immunological processes.
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The Future of Gene Therapy for a Rare Pediatric Autoimmune Disease
Niki Spahich, PhD | Jul 10, 2023 | 3 min read
By editing a mutated immune regulatory gene in patient cells, Rosa Bacchetta brings hope to those suffering from IPEX syndrome.
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Resolving Discrepancies in Mouse and Human Autoimmunity Studies
Niki Spahich, PhD | May 15, 2023 | 4 min read
By editing primary T cells with CRISPR, researchers begin to settle a long-standing debate about a common autoimmunity risk variant.
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Opinion: New Diabetes Drug Signals Shift to Preventing Autoimmunity
Jane Buckner, MD and Carla Greenbaum, MD | Mar 1, 2023 | 4 min read
A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat patients before symptoms appear, paving the way toward preventing this and other autoimmune diseases.
Training the Immune System to Fight Chronic Diseases
Training the Immune System to Fight Chronic Diseases
The Scientist | Dec 21, 2022 | 1 min read
Learn how researchers analyze and engineer antibodies to better understand antibody function and development for disease therapeutics.
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Skin Bacteria May Trigger Lupus: Mouse Study
Natalia Mesa, PhD | Oct 28, 2022 | 3 min read
Staphylococcus aureus appears to be the culprit.
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Genes that Aided Black Death Survival Linked to Autoimmunity
Jef Akst | Oct 20, 2022 | 2 min read
A new study points to repercussions of the Medieval pandemic for the health of modern humans.
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Multiple Possible Causes of Long COVID Come into Focus
Natalia Mesa, PhD | Sep 28, 2022 | 10+ min read
Recent studies have lent support for a variety of hypotheses explaining the debilitating symptoms affecting millions of people after SARS-CoV-2 infection.  
Motor neurons, undergoing degeneration in ALS
Mutant T Cells That Drive Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Progression May React To a Brain Antigen
Nele Haelterman, PhD | Aug 8, 2022 | 4 min read
Scientists discovered a possibly autoreactive T cell population that forecasts and supports disease progression.
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Gonorrhea-Blocking Mutation Also Protects Against Alzheimer’s: Study
Holly Barker, PhD | Aug 5, 2022 | 4 min read
Research traces the evolution of a gene variant that reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, finding that it originally evolved in response to infectious bacteria.
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Deficient RNA Editing Implicated in Inflammatory Disease 
Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD | Aug 5, 2022 | 3 min read
Genetic variants that reduce the editing levels of double-stranded RNA are associated with autoimmune and immune-mediated conditions, a study finds.
Learn How the Immune System Can Be Trained to Overcome Food Allergies
Retraining the Immune System Cavalry for Food Allergen Peacekeeping Missions
The Scientist | Jul 25, 2022 | 1 min read
Explore food allergy immunotherapy for reversing patient symptoms.
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Accelerating Immune Research with Cryopreserved Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
The Scientist and MilliporeSigma | Jul 18, 2022 | 3 min read
Commerically-available peripheral blood mononuclear cells offer a well-characterized, accessible, and consistent model for immunology and therapeutic development.
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Is the Immune System to Blame for Schizophrenia?
Diana Kwon | Apr 18, 2022 | 10+ min read
Several lines of evidence suggest that targeting the body’s defense pathways might help treat a subset of people with the psychiatric disorder. But many open questions remain.
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Infographic: How the Body’s Defenses Attack the Brain
Diana Kwon | Apr 18, 2022 | 2 min read
Scientists have pinpointed several pathways through which the immune system could disrupt neuronal functioning and thereby lead to psychotic symptoms.
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New Mechanism for Virus-Triggered Autoimmunity Uncovered
Sophie Fessl, PhD | Mar 11, 2022 | 4 min read
Roseolovirus infection disrupts how the body trains immune cells not to attack it, a mouse study shows.
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