- What disease was Niels Finsen trying to treat with concentrated ultraviolet light?
Autoimmune Disease
Conditions where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.
- What happened when Philip Hench administered cortisone to patients with rheumatoid arthritis?
- How does understanding antibody gene shuffling help explain autoimmune disease and inform vaccine design?
- What did Feldmann and Maini discover about tumour necrosis factor alpha's role in rheumatoid arthritis?
- What other autoimmune diseases have since been treated with the anti-TNF therapy family?
- What did Unger find when he compared his cracked and uncracked hands after sixty years?
- What role does the cGAS-STING pathway play in both cancer and autoimmune disease?
- What did Sakaguchi observe when he removed a specific population of T cells from mice?
- What is IPEX disease, and how does it confirm that FOXP3 plays the same role in humans as in mice?