Throughout human history, microscopic enemies have claimed more lives than all wars, natural disasters, and accidents combined. Infectious diseases have shaped civilizations, toppled empires, and ...

Our immune systems never stop targeting cells they regard as a threat, so it’s really bad news when rogue immune cells mistakenly turn on us, as they do in autoimmune conditions. Existing treatments ...

In desperation, the woman’s care team reached out to Müller, a hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Erlangen, a roughly three-hour drive away by ambulance. In recent years, he and his ...

Autoimmune diseases represent a major global health burden, affecting an estimated 4.5% of the world’s population. Their economic impact is also substantial, including a projected cost of US$180 ...

A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system. The 47-year-old had ...

The patient’s disease and treatment course from apheresis through CAR T cell reinfusion, including time lines of early treatment outcomes. For the first time, scientists have used a cutting-edge cell ...