Children's Research Centre helps makes breakthrough in autoimmunity
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Associate Professor Simon Barry from the Children's Research Centre and his co-investigators have identified a gene which needs to be "switched off" in order to reverse autoimmune disease.
Professor Barry's breakthrough has been published in Nature Immunology and has significant implications for millions of people who suffer from type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and other autoimmune disorders.
You can read more about the Children's Research Centre's work in autoimmune disease here.
