Lupus News
December 23, 2024
Top Headlines
Aug. 20, 2024 — A team of researchers report that autoantibodies alone directly affect heart function in lupus ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A team defined key cells behind severe kidney damage in lupus. The research can inform future antibody ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — Scientists have identified a rare, mutated version of a protein called TNIP1 that causes a chronic autoimmune disease similar to Sjogren's Syndrome -- a condition that leads to extreme dryness of the ...
July 10, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in systemic lupus erythematosus (known as lupus) and show that reversing this defect may potentially reverse the ...
Latest Headlines
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July 1, 2024 — A team identifies target protein regulating autoimmune disease ...
May 23, 2024 — Treatment of autoimmune diseases like lupus has long relied on steroids to knock down the immune system, but more targeted therapies are currently undergoing clinical trials. To make sure these ...
May 20, 2024 — An increase in nightmares and hallucinations -- or 'daymares' -- could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as ...
May 13, 2024 — Researchers say they have uncovered insights as to why lupus symptoms and severity present differently in individuals with the autoimmune condition, ...
Feb. 8, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of immune system cells, known as Atypical B cells (ABCs), to fight infectious diseases such as malaria. The scientists say ABCs ...
Feb. 6, 2024 — Researchers have worked out how to fix a defect that causes lupus, and hope their discovery will offer effective long-term ...
Jan. 14, 2024 — Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system that normally protects the body from invading microbes turns ...
Dec. 5, 2023 — In some diseases, the underlying processes can start years before a diagnosis is made. A new study finds that people who later develop multiple ...
Nov. 13, 2023 — For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Some ...
Nov. 8, 2023 — New research may lead to new targeted treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation and ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 13, 2024 — Researchers found that T cells recognize neoself-antigens -- abnormal, unfolded host proteins presented by major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II) lacking the invariant chain -- as non-self ...
June 27, 2023 — Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body's immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species ...
Mar. 8, 2023 — Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and -- in doing so -- unearthed a potential new ...
Feb. 1, 2023 — A pair of researchers reports the success of their new, at-home method for early diagnosis and monitoring of lupus nephritis. or inflammation of the kidneys, one of the most severe complications for ...
Jan. 26, 2023 — Scientists have discovered the role of microRNA on inflammation in lupus disease. They identified the microRNAs that are downregulated in the disease and how they converge to cause the ...
Jan. 13, 2023 — Targeting iron metabolism in immune system cells may offer a new approach for treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) -- the most common form of the chronic autoimmune disease lupus. A ...
Nov. 23, 2022 — Investigators have reported highly promising early results for CAR T therapy in a small set of patients with the autoimmune disease ...
Nov. 3, 2022 — Some genetic variants may put people at risk of autoimmune diseases while conferring protection against the outcome of viral infection. A new study suggests that genetic predisposition for systemic ...
Sep. 8, 2022 — A team of engineers and doctors has designed a unique 3D-printed light-sensing medical device that could help millions of people worldwide with lupus and other light-sensitive ...
Aug. 28, 2022 — An international research team presents the outcome of a thorough epidemiological investigation into possible links between nineteen of the most common autoimmune disorders and cardiovascular ...
July 14, 2022 — A new study finds that technology through video game-based cognitive therapy improves attention and executive functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ...
July 13, 2022 — People with systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, who received a 'booster' dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine after full vaccination are roughly half as likely to have a subsequent ...
July 11, 2022 — A novel molecular pathway involving cell signalling proteins in the brain may explain how stress affects neuropsychiatric lupus with diffuse neuropsychological ...
June 2, 2022 — A national expert in systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, has identified biomarkers for heart disease and for children with lupus ...
May 3, 2022 — A new study finds that the normal-appearing skin of lupus patients contains the same inflammatory signals that are detected when the skin develops a rash, sometimes at even higher levels. Researchers ...
Apr. 27, 2022 — An international team of researchers has identified DNA mutations in a gene that senses viral RNA, as a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus, with the finding paving the way for the development of ...
Mar. 22, 2022 — Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is rare in children and known to cause inflammation and recurring, potentially fatal, blood clots. Researchers found that two-thirds of children with the autoimmune ...
Feb. 9, 2022 — An expert in autoimmune diseases and systemic lupus erythematosus has identified potential biomarkers for neuropsychiatric symptoms of lupus after conducting a large-scale protein ...