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by Ayaan » Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:20 am
As someone with an autoimmune disease, this is very fascinating news indeed.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 123230.htm
ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2012) — Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that a pair of molecules work together to kill so-called 'self-reactive' immune cells that are programmed to attack the body's own organs. The finding is helping to explain how autoimmune diseases develop.
Dr Daniel Gray and colleagues from the institute's Molecular Genetics of Cancer division and the University of Ballarat discovered that the absence of two related proteins, called Puma and Bim, led to self-reactive immune cells accumulating and attacking many different body organs, causing illness. The research is published online today in the journal Immunity....
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