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 ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for blood cancers appeared less toxic, and patients' hospital stays were days shorter, when they also had autoimmune disease before starting the ...

Asha Torczon explores why the female population are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases and the impact of misogyny in ...

New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...

Scientists have revealed a novel mechanism through which the immune system controls autoimmunity and cancer. In the special focus of the researchers were regulatory T cells -- a type of white blood ...

In 1901, Paul Ehrlich conducted one of the landmark experiments in immunology. While studying the immune response in goats using blood from other animals, ...

The mammalian immune system has an extraordinary potential for making receptors that sense and neutralize any chemical entity entering the body. Inevitably, some of these receptors recognize ...

Alzheimer’s may be, at least in part, a disease of the immune system. Evidence supporting this comes from the study of genetics, infectious diseases, and the molecular machinations of the innate and ...

The Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center (CAMBAC) is hosting a one-day regional symposium titled Advances in Musculoskeletal Infection Research: From Bench to ...