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Lupus: is a long-term autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. Symptoms include inflammation, swelling, and damage to the joints, skin, kidneys, blood, heart, and lungs.
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FEB 01, 2018Immunology
One gene mutation is responsible for disrupting the function of a key immune cell population involved in protecting the ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 15, 2018Immunology
Increased stress - either psychological or allergic - can make the body’s response to disease much more serious. I ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 18, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
Antibody use as drugs for multiple disease states has been a rapidly evolving area with great promise. Here, this is su ...Written By: Courtney SchaalDEC 06, 2017Immunology
A first-of-its-kind study reveals genetic variants in the immune system that increase the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma, a ty ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 28, 2017Immunology
Macular degeneration is considered to be an incurable eye disease, but a new discovery from University of Virginia scien ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 27, 2017Health & Medicine
It's a common paradox in some illnesses that while exercise and regular physical activity is is beneficial, the illn ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 07, 2017Videos
In this video from Mayo Clinic radio, you can hear from Dr. Arya Mohabbat, the practice chair of Mayo Clinic's Fibromyal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 04, 2017Immunology
The immune response needs to be just right: not too much, or an autoimmune disease will develop; not too little, or viru ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 07, 2017Microbiology
Our innate immune system has a lot of ways to deal with invading pathogens - macrophages gobble up bacteria, for one. Bu ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 02, 2017Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 12, 2017Immunology
The good news? Scientists discovered a regulatory immune process that wards off “accidental” responses that ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 10, 2017Immunology
A malaria drug, called hydroxycholorquine, prevents Zika virus - even when a mother is already infected - from crossing ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 07, 2017Immunology
Thanks to regulatory T cells (Tregs), the immune system is kept in line via a careful system of checks and balanc ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 17, 2017Cardiology
People with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 14, 2017Immunology
Diagnostic tests for a rare autoimmune disease called anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) are unreliable, and trea ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 03, 2017Cancer
Sometimes scientists have to work in reverse. That is, they may know that a compound seems to treat a disease, but then ...MAY 14, 2017Health & Medicine
Age-associated B cells (ABCs) were discovered in 2011 to be phenotypically and functionally unique cells common in the s ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 17, 2017Health & Medicine
The first human case of babesiosis was reported in 1957; until then it was thought of as a disease plaguing domes ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 09, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Neanderthals died off 40,000 years ago, but not before passing on some of their genes to humans, who have in turn carrie ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 27, 2017Immunology
Thanks to the innate immune response, humans have an immediately-acting defense mechanism set in place against invading ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 22, 2017Immunology
New technology allows scientists to watch immune cells move in real time, and researchers recently took advantage of thi ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 29, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered what they call a ‘master switch’ that causes women ...Written By: Jennifer EllisNOV 17, 2016Microbiology
Researchers studying antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) found that patients with the disease have high levels of bacteria t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 04, 2016Immunology
Scientists are not quite sure why or how individuals develop scleroderma, and there is no current cure for the autoimmun ...Written By: Kara Marker
FEB 01, 2018
Immunology
One gene mutation is responsible for disrupting the function of a key immune cell population involved in protecting the
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 15, 2018
Immunology
Increased stress - either psychological or allergic - can make the body’s response to disease much more serious. I
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 18, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Antibody use as drugs for multiple disease states has been a rapidly evolving area with great promise. Here, this is su
...
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
DEC 06, 2017
Immunology
A first-of-its-kind study reveals genetic variants in the immune system that increase the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma, a ty
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 28, 2017
Immunology
Macular degeneration is considered to be an incurable eye disease, but a new discovery from University of Virginia scien
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 27, 2017
Health & Medicine
It's a common paradox in some illnesses that while exercise and regular physical activity is is beneficial, the illn
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 07, 2017
Videos
In this video from Mayo Clinic radio, you can hear from Dr. Arya Mohabbat, the practice chair of Mayo Clinic's Fibromyal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2017
Immunology
The immune response needs to be just right: not too much, or an autoimmune disease will develop; not too little, or viru
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 07, 2017
Microbiology
Our innate immune system has a lot of ways to deal with invading pathogens - macrophages gobble up bacteria, for one. Bu
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 02, 2017
Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 12, 2017
Immunology
The good news? Scientists discovered a regulatory immune process that wards off “accidental” responses that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 10, 2017
Immunology
A malaria drug, called hydroxycholorquine, prevents Zika virus - even when a mother is already infected - from crossing
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 07, 2017
Immunology
Thanks to regulatory T cells (Tregs), the immune system is kept in line via a careful system of checks and balanc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 17, 2017
Cardiology
People with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis,
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 14, 2017
Immunology
Diagnostic tests for a rare autoimmune disease called anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) are unreliable, and trea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 03, 2017
Cancer
Sometimes scientists have to work in reverse. That is, they may know that a compound seems to treat a disease, but then
...
MAY 14, 2017
Health & Medicine
Age-associated B cells (ABCs) were discovered in 2011 to be phenotypically and functionally unique cells common in the s
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 17, 2017
Health & Medicine
The first human case of babesiosis was reported in 1957; until then it was thought of as a disease plaguing domes
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 09, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Neanderthals died off 40,000 years ago, but not before passing on some of their genes to humans, who have in turn carrie
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 27, 2017
Immunology
Thanks to the innate immune response, humans have an immediately-acting defense mechanism set in place against invading
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 22, 2017
Immunology
New technology allows scientists to watch immune cells move in real time, and researchers recently took advantage of thi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 29, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered what they call a ‘master switch’ that causes women
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
NOV 17, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers studying antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) found that patients with the disease have high levels of bacteria t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 04, 2016
Immunology
Scientists are not quite sure why or how individuals develop scleroderma, and there is no current cure for the autoimmun
...
Written By:
Kara Marker