Immune System Diseases: News and Research on Autoimmune Diseases

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Diabetes

Why type 1 diabetes is more aggressive in young children

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding why type 1 diabetes is more aggressive in young children, offering the clearest explanation to date of why the condition is particularly difficult to manage when ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry

One of humanity's most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have found.

Vaccination

No-needle test can tell if flu/COVID vaccines are effective

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed a skin patch that can detect antibodies associated with COVID and flu infections. It's orders of magnitude more sensitive than existing tests, uses just ...

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