Tag: autoimmune

As Canadians prepare for "vitamin D winter" – months when the sun's angle is too low to produce the vitamin ...

A team of international scientists has discovered the genetic basis of a rare hereditary autoimmune disease, according to a study ...

Autoimmune diseases are widespread and notoriously difficult to treat. This is partly because why the immune system attacks its own ...

by Frederike Buhse, Exzellenzcluster Präzisionsmedizin für chronische Entzündungserkrankungen In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own structures. ...

More than two decades ago, a research team in the lab of David Hafler, a researcher at Yale and Harvard ...

B cells protect your body from infection. But sometimes they fail and cause debilitating diseases. Researchers at the University of ...

Just as ripples on the water can betray powerful currents beneath the surface, small changes in our bodies can sometimes ...

An immune system protein programmed to protect the body against fungal infections is also responsible for exacerbating the severity of ...