Discovery highlights promise of new immune system-based therapies

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

A new focus on the immune system's ability to both unleash and restrain its attack on disease has led scientists to identify cells in mice that prevent the immune system from attacking the animals' own cells, protecting them from autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and lupus.

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