Autoimmunity is an underlying cause of many diseases, including type I diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Crohn’s disease. The processes that ...

Medically reviewed by Marisa Garshick, MD Scientists now think chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is an autoimmune disease, ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified which parts of the immune system go awry and contribute to autoimmune diseases in individuals with Down syndrome.

Human genetic variants associated with the development of systemic autoimmunity modulate B cell receptor (BCR) and co-receptor signalling, suggesting a role for dysregulated B cell signalling in ...

New research shows how a specially trained population of immune cells keeps the peace by preventing other immune cells from attacking their own. The study provides a better understanding of immune ...

Immunotherapy for advanced melanoma induces serologic and clinical manifestations of autoimmunity. We assessed the prognostic significance of autoimmunity in patients with stage IIB, IIC, or III ...

ImmuneSensor Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the development of first- and best-in-class cGAS inhibitors to address diverse peripheral and CNS indications in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The common consensus for some time has been that the prevalence of autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases has been ...

A study published in the journal Journal of Autoimmunity highlights a phenomenon of molecular mimicry between the SARS-CoV-2 ...

A new study, recently published in Nature, changes that. Researchers showed, for the first time, direct evidence that autoimmunity may play a key role in ALS. 4 Specifically, in individuals with ALS, ...

As shown in Figure 1, by 60 years of age, the cumulative incidence of diabetes among monozygotic twins who were initially discordant for diabetes was 65% (95% confidence interval [CI], 39 to 91), and ...

Scientists have revealed a novel mechanism through which the immune system controls autoimmunity and cancer. In the special focus of the researchers were regulatory T cells -- a type of white blood ...