Getty Images In a new study, Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have described — for the first time — the prevalence of autoimmune diseases in the U.S. Their research, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, reports that about 15 million people are estimated to have one or more of 105 autoimmune diseases. The study […]
Nature, Published online: 04 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03846-9 The discovery that peptides from myelin proteins in the brain help the immune system’s T cells to suppress autoimmunity could pave the way to developing therapies for inflammatory brain diseases.
In an early-stage clinical trial, scientists used designer immune cells to “reboot” the immune systems of patients with various autoimmune diseases. The trial used a form of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which has become a mainstay treatment for blood cancers, like leukemia. Only a few patients were included in this initial trial, […]
