Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details on the events that occur during autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . van Trotsenburg and Mooij are pediatric endocrinologists at Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam University ...

Studying mice, researchers have discovered that roseolovirus can trigger autoimmunity in a previously unknown way: by disrupting the process by which immune cells learn to avoid targeting their own ...

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 ...

The emergence and rapid outbreak of a novel coronavirus, namely, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China in 2019, caused a global pandemic, which is popularly known as ...

The study, published Feb. 28 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, describes a previously unknown way a virus can trigger autoimmunity. Further, it suggests that human roseoloviruses, close ...

Osaka, Japan – We all know that a strong immune system is a definite advantage. Yet, sometimes, the immune system goes awry and attacks one’s body. This autoimmunity is the cause of various disorders, ...

The Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Yale has awarded grant funding to six innovative research projects that exhibit the potential to develop new diagnostics and therapeutics and to provide new ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for cancer led to better outcomes in patients with autoimmune diseases than in those without, a cohort study found. A retrospective cohort study analyzed ...

Edited by: Karen Young Kreeger K.W. Wucherpfennig, J.L. Strominger, "Molecular mimicry in T cell-mediated autoimmunity: Viral peptides activate human T cell clones specific for myelin basic protein," ...