Many of the molecules in our body help our immune system stay healthy without overreacting to cause problems for our immune cells, such as autoimmune diseases. There’s a molecule called AIM2 that’s part of the innate immune system that fights pathogens and keeps you healthy. However, little is known about the function of AIM2 in T cell adaptive immunity, which is an immune defense against specific pathogens and health problems…
Autoimmune diseases
Autoimmune Diseases Therapy: Targeted by Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells
This article is reproduced from Science Magazine (Science 01 Jul 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6294, pp. 14 DOI: 10.1126/science.353.6294.14) Fighting autoimmunity with immune cells. In this article, the possibility of the solving some autoimmune diseases with immune cells is discussed. Autoimmune diseases share a grim similarity with cancer: People’s own cells become their enemies. But a new study published online in Science reveals a happier parallel, suggesting that a therapy designed to harness…