A group of researchers has found a new way to limit excessive immune responses, which may point in a new direction for research in and treatment of e.g. autoimmune diseases. Researchers from... Read more
From the ashes of a failed pain drug, a new therapeutic path emerges In 2013, renowned Boston Children’s Hospital pain researcher Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, and chemist Kai Johnsson... Read more
While stem cells have the most therapeutic potential, the benefits of regenerative medicine may best be mobilised using extracellular vesicles (EVs), also known in the past as “cellular dust... Read more
Unexpected findings show that the body’s own immune system destroys retinal cells. Glaucoma, a disease that afflicts nearly 70 million people worldwide, is something of a mystery despite its... Read more
Parasitic worms aren’t all bad. Parts of the world in which people are still regularly infected by them tend to have lower levels of autoimmune disease. This and other observations hav... Read more
A research team has discovered the process – and filmed the actual moment – that can change the body’s response to a dying cell. Importantly – what they call the ‘Great Escape’ moment may on... Read more
Adding irradiation before transplant improves long-term results and should change practice Scleroderma with internal organ involvement is a debilitating and lethal autoimmune disorder with f... Read more
More than 23.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and lupus, in which an overzealous immune response leads to pain, inflammation, skin d... Read more
University of Saskatchewan (U of S) scientists have developed a new immunotherapy technique that nearly eliminates the allergic response to peanut and egg white proteins in food-allergic mic... Read more
An international research team has demonstrated that a new plant-derived drug can block the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). University of Queensland researcher Dr Christian Gruber sa... Read more
LupuzorTM may become the first specific and non-immunosuppressant therapy for lupus, a disabling autoimmune disease that is currently incurable. Discovered by Sylviane Muller’s team in... Read more
Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue.... Read more
Cells from one’s own blood could be converted into a treatment for autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease, based on the discovery of a Purdue Universi... Read more
