Years of persistent detective work allowed researchers to discover a gene mutation that increases the risk of systemic lupus erythematosus…
Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) had lower disease activity when they took the investigational treatment anifrolumab along with standard…
Researchers have identified a factor that controls immune cells’ entry into joints, which leads to arthritis in diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Blocking a protein that controls the immune system’s reaction to a virus may also be used to prevent autoimmune reactions…
A consortium of European researchers has received nearly 15 million euros in European Commission funding to study chronic inflammatory diseases,…
Cytori Therapeutics will expand the scope of its Habeo Cell Therapy (ECCS-50) for secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon to include patients with…
Researchers are learning how signals about disease-related inflammatory activity are sent from the body to the brain — insight that could…
Researchers have uncovered genetic differences explaining why autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, affect women more than men. And…
The immune factor interferon-lambda may be a key driver of lupus nephritis, according to a recent study that showed persistently…
Eye damage, also referred to as retinopathy, caused by systemic lupus erythematosus may be a sign of more severe disease,…