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New Strategies for Repurposing Existing Therapies 
Drug repurposing uses existing drugs beyond the scope in which they were originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
New Strategies for Repurposing Existing Therapies 
New Strategies for Repurposing Existing Therapies 

Drug repurposing uses existing drugs beyond the scope in which they were originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Drug repurposing uses existing drugs beyond the scope in which they were originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

rheumatoid arthritis

X-ray crystallography of penicillin
Crystal-Clear Penicillin, 1945
Brittany McWilliams | Apr 3, 2023 | 4 min read
Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.
Illustration of people dying from the Black Death
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.
Identified: Molecular Predictors of Rheumatoid Arthritis Relapse
Ruth Williams | Jul 15, 2020 | 4 min read
The presence of a particular set of RNAs in the blood forewarns of an onset of severe symptoms and points to the cells involved.
microbiome
Do Commensal Microbes Stoke the Fire of Autoimmunity?
Amanda B. Keener | Jun 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
Molecules produced by resident bacteria and their hosts may signal immune cells to attack the body’s own tissues.
Immune Response to Gut Microbes Linked to Diabetes Risk
Abby Olena, PhD | Feb 1, 2019 | 3 min read
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.
Drug for Still’s Disease Shows Promise in Phase 2 Trial
Shawna Williams | Mar 1, 2018 | 4 min read
Patients with the rare autoimmune condition, highlighted in the Oscar-nominated film The Big Sick, currently have limited treatment options.
Pinpointing the Culprit
Rachel Berkowitz | Jun 1, 2017 | 8 min read
Identifying immune cell subsets with CyTOF
Toward Targeted Therapies for Autoimmune Disorders
Lawrence Steinman | Jun 1, 2016 | 10 min read
Training the immune system to cease fire on native tissues could improve outcomes for autoimmune patients, but clinical progress has been slow.
Body, Heal Thyself
Jason Liebowitz | Sep 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Reviving a decades-old hypothesis of autoimmunity
$230M for Big Disease
Jef Akst | Feb 5, 2014 | 2 min read
The National Institutes of Health is partnering with 10 drug companies to find new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus.
Gut Microbes May Impact Autoimmunity
Abby Olena, PhD | Nov 6, 2013 | 2 min read
Researchers show that the prevalence of one genus of bacteria correlates with the onset of rheumatoid arthritis.
A Joint Endeavor
Hannah Waters | Jun 14, 2011 | 2 min read
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