Autoimmune disease occurs from the body’s immune system attacking its healthy cells. Unfortunately, the mechanism that would normally prevent autoimmunity is not present in some individuals. T cells ...

More than two decades ago, a research team discovered a type of T cell in humans that suppresses the immune system; they later found that these so-called regulatory T cells, when defective, are an ...

The immune system is responsible for safeguarding the body from external and internal dangers. It does this, for the most part, by targeting and eliminating perceived threats ranging from invading ...

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, researchers at Stanford Medicine have found. Manipulating this pathway ...

Autoimmune diseases stem from a complicated interplay of immune dysregulation, characterized by chronic inflammation and the loss of self-tolerance. Cytokines are central to these processes. These ...

Activation of certain memory B cells may be driving systemic lupus erythematosus incidence in individuals who had ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing. Over the last decade it has emerged that cellular metabolism and the metabolic pathways utilised by immune ...

Nonprofit coalition selects seven esteemed researchers to fuel understanding of autoimmune diseases and accelerate potential therapies To that end, seven research projects were selected after a highly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite massive studies representing millions of participants that demonstrate associations between COVID-19 and ...

Prof. Sun-Uk Lee of the Department of Neurology and Prof. Euyhyun Park of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology from Korea University’s Anam Hospital discovered a new mechanism of vestibular neuritis.