Autoimmune News round up

 What's been happening in the word of medical research into autoimmune conditions in the last week? You can find a round up here. Just click on the links to go to the full report.

• Antibodies that activate stimulatory or inhibitory receptors are of great therapeutic interest for the treatment of cancer or autoimmune diseases. It emerges that such antibodies work better if they don’t bind to receptors too tightly. NATURE 

• COVID-19 might increase risk of autoimmune diseases. A study into 641,407 individuals with COVID-19 were matched to more than 1.56 million controls. NEWS MEDICAL LIFE SCIENCES

• Single-cell T cell receptor sequencing of paired human atherosclerotic plaques and blood reveals autoimmune-like features of expanded effector T cells. NATURE CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

• PSMC6 induces immune cell infiltration and inflammatory response to aggravate primary Sjögren’s syndrome. NATURE

• National study shows Indigenous patients with autoimmune liver disease face worse symptoms and outcomes. Search for the cause and better treatments continues, researcher says. UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

• Long-standing mystery about mRNAs resolved. CORNELL UNIVERSITY

• Circulating Th17 T cells at treatment onset predict autoimmune toxicity of PI3Kδ inhibitors. NATURE

• 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 disease. SCIENCE DAILY

• Insufficient sleep during adolescence and risk of multiple sclerosis: results from a Swedish case-control study. BMJ Journals

• Researcher takes another step toward discovering how a brain molecule could halt MS. MEDICAL EXPRESS

You can also visit our main site Autoimmune Disease List to see a full list of recent autoimmune disease news updates which includes research.