autoimmunity

Staphylococcus aureus appears to be the culprit.

A new study points to repercussions of the Medieval pandemic for the health of modern humans.

Recent studies have lent support for a variety of hypotheses explaining the debilitating symptoms affecting millions of people after SARS-CoV-2 infection.  

Scientists discovered a possibly autoreactive T cell population that forecasts and supports disease progression.

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.

Genetic variants that reduce the editing levels of double-stranded RNA are associated with autoimmune and immune-mediated conditions, a study finds.

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.

Scientists have pinpointed several pathways through which the immune system could disrupt neuronal functioning and thereby lead to psychotic symptoms.

Roseolovirus infection disrupts how the body trains immune cells not to attack it, a mouse study shows.

Erika Moore builds biomaterials to study disparate lupus outcomes.

Researchers found that lowering the temperature alleviates autoimmunity in mice.

Immunologists and parasitologists are working to revive the idea that helminths, and more specifically the molecules they secrete, could help treat allergies and autoimmune disease.

Research in animals and people supports a range of mechanisms by which the parasites affect physiology and immune responses.

Scientists added a gene circuit that senses and neutralizes proinflammatory ATP to yeast, taking another step towards precision medicine.