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Lupus Patients Stopped Every Immunosuppressant After One Off-the-Shelf CAR-T Dose in Small Trial, but Therapy Remains Experimental

Lupus patients in a small CAR-T trial stopped immunosuppressants after one infusion. The therapy is experimental and not yet in a pivotal study.

Medical Daily · Sep 30

Why an overactive immune system attacks the bodies of people with lupus but still leaves them vulnerable to infection

Despite having an overactive immune system, people with lupus may still struggle to fight bacterial infections. My team and I found that this paradox may be because chronic inflammation pushes their immune cells toward the wrong kind of response.

The Conversation · Sep 16

Indian Wolf: How One of the World's Most Genetically Distinct Wolf Species Survives India's Open Grassland

A Lineage That Branched Off Before Europe Had WolvesA 2021 study published in the journal Molecular Ecology placed the Indian wolf's divergence from the broader wolf lineage at somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 years ago. That predates the arrival of grey wolves in Europe and North America. Every wolf you…

Times Life · Sep 15

What Returning Wolves to the Deccan Could Do: The Trophic Cascade Evidence From Yellowstone

What Yellowstone Actually ProvedFourteen grey wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park in January 1995. Within a decade, the park's river channels had shifted course. That outcome had nothing to do with the wolves physically moving water. It had everything to do with where elk chose to stand. The mechanism…

Times Life · Sep 1

Deccan Plateau Dry Forests: The Animals and Their Survival Adaptations in India's Most Overlooked Wildlife Zone

What Makes the Deccan Dry Forest a Different Kind of Pressure CookerThe Deccan plateau receives between 500 and 900 mm of rain annually, enough to prevent true desert, not enough to allow the dense canopy of the Western Ghats. What grows instead is thorn scrub, dry deciduous woodland, and open…

Times Life · Aug 25

Your Skin Keeps a Chemical Alarm That Tells the Rest of Your Body When to Make Antibodies

A stress metabolite in skin cells activates the TRPV3 channel and triggers systemic antibody production, a pathway found overactive in lupus lesions.

Medical Daily · Aug 18

5 Painful Joint Conditions That Are Commonly Mistaken for Arthritis But Need Different Treatment

Bursitis: The Inflammation That Sits Just Outside the JointBursae are small fluid-filled sacs that cushion the space between bone and soft tissue. When one gets inflamed, a condition called bursitis, the pain lands directly over the joint and feels indistinguishable from arthritis to most people. The shoulder, hip, and knee…

Times Life · Aug 7

Why Rheumatoid Arthritis Hits Indian Women Three Times More Often Than Men, And What Drives It

The Numbers Behind the GapRheumatoid arthritis affects roughly 0.5 to 1 percent of India's adult population, but that burden is not distributed evenly. Women account for nearly 75 percent of all RA cases globally, and data from the Indian Rheumatology Association places the female-to-male ratio in India at close to…

Times Life · Aug 6

Halsey Says Doctors Missed Her Lupus Because of How She Looked: 'It Could Have Been Caught Years Earlier'

Halsey says doctors overlooked her lupus for years because of how she looked, revealing her condition could have been diagnosed much earlier

International Business Times UK · Jul 1

Groundbreaking therapy could revolutionise treatment for lupus

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The Independent UK · Jun 12