Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a disease in which inflammation causes scars in the bile duct, leading to liver failure, infections, and tumors. Up to 80% of PSC patients have inflammatory bowel disease. Major aspects ...
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Arteriosclerosis bears great similarities to autoimmune diseases. Researchers from Leiden University show this in a new study they published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research. "This discovery suggests that treatment ...
Jan 31, 2023
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Investigators at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have designed RNA molecules that home to human pancreatic beta cells, the cells that produce insulin and are destroyed in patients with type 1 and type 2 ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Autoimmune diseases are triggered when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body's own structures. Although there is not, as yet, any cure for such diseases, their progression can be slowed down by therapeutic measures. ...
Feb 23, 2022
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In a new study, scientists from the University of Aberdeen looked at vitamin A and how the brain reacts to it. Vitamin A is essential for life but until now it was not known how it is maintained in the body.
Aug 9, 2023
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Until recently, scientists have not fully understood why ticks are such dangerous disease vectors. A research team led by Johanna Strobl and Georg Stary from MedUni Vienna's Department of Dermatology shows that tick saliva ...
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Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on a new approach to treating kidney failure that could one day free people from needing dialysis or having to take harsh drugs to suppress their immune system after a transplant.
Aug 29, 2023
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They're cancer patients. Transplant recipients. People with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell disease, kidney failure and Crohn's disease. Plus millions of others who have conditions or take medications that ...
Aug 17, 2021
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Insights into the workings of an immune cell surface receptor, called PD-1, reveal how treatments that restrict its action can potentially be strengthened to improve their anticancer effect, a new study shows. The same findings ...
Mar 8, 2024
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A world-first human trial at James Cook University using live hookworms to combat diseases such as type 2 diabetes has proven successful—sparking interest in staging a larger-scale international trial.
Aug 2, 2023
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