The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.
Professor Jamie Rossjohn is internationally recognised for using structural biology to investigate how T cells can respond to viral infections or cause autoimmunity. Now, he's been named a fellow of the oldest science academy in the world.
Vaccination may one day allow coeliac disease sufferers to have their cake and eat it, too – but many questions remain unanswered.
After a horrific 2017 flu season, there's more interest than ever in developing a better, more universal vaccine. T-cells might hold the answer.
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