Is immunization a double-edged sword, providing protection from infectious disease, while also causing autoimmunity? Data presented at a recent meeting suggests that this is not the case.

Autoimmunity occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s healthy cells, leading to chronic diseases. It can be triggered by genetic factors, environmental influences, and immune system ...

Advances in our understanding of autoimmunity and tumour immunity have led to improvements in immunotherapy for these diseases. Ironically, effective tumour immunity requires the induction of the ...

Autoimmunity Biosolutions has closed a seed financing to support its work advancing a next-generation, immuno-corrective therapy for autoimmune diseases. The company’s approach targets a branch of the ...

Immune dysregulation is often defined as an immune response that is directed against one of the body’s own tissues, cells or molecules (e.g. autoimmunity) or against an innocuous foreign molecule that ...

Treatment and management of autoimmune diseases focus on controlling symptoms, modulating the immune response, and addressing ...

Yes, patients with one autoimmune disease are more likely to get other autoimmune diseases. This is because the fundamental processes that underlie the breakdown of self-tolerance and the development ...

The Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Autoimmunity Center Faculty are organized into thematic workgroups to support and continue to develop the faculty and the scientific initiatives of the ...

reducing Treg cells that are crucial for maintaining immune tolerance and for the control of inflammation and autoimmunity. Most autoimmune and inflammatory diseases exhibit disturbances in Treg ...

Fate Therapeutics (FATE) stock rallied 37% Monday on positive Phase 1 study data for its cell therapies FT819 and FT522. Read ...