Study elucidates epigenetic mechanisms behind autoimmune diseases
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 15:50
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have used an editing tool to investigate a gene that plays a key role in eliminating autoaggressive cells and controlling the development of diseases such as type 1 diabetes. In tests with mice, the disrupting of medullary thymic epithelial cells gene impaired the processing of mRNA involved in their adhesion to autoaggressive T lymphocytes.