Clever feedback system regulates immune responses
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
A newly discovered feedback mechanism in the body is responsible for keeping immune responses from getting out of hand. It works at the level of certain genes, linking the inactivation of those genes to the progress made in transcribing them: This clever mechanism was discovered as part of an Austrian Science Fund FWF project and was recently published in Molecular Cell Biology. The discovery offers a completely new approach for future therapies aimed at controlling the immune system.