Gene regulates immune cells' ability to harm the body
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 16:35
in Health & Medicine
St. Louis, July 16, 2009 -- A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.