Autoimmune

Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a potential new treatment for alopecia areata,…

In female mammals, genes on one copy of the X chromosome are usually inactivated vchal/Shutterstock Female mammals have a higher…

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system that normally protects the body from invading…

Enamel, the hardest and most mineral-rich substance in the human body, covers and protects our teeth. But in one of…

A protein in the immune system programmed to protect the body from fungal infections is also responsible for exacerbating the…