In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified two cellular defects that drive disease in lupus, a condition affecting over 1.5 million people in the U.S. The study, published in Nature, reveals that reversing a specific molecular defect could potentially lead to a cure for lupus. The current treatments for lupus have often failed to control the disease and have unintended side effects that compromise the immune system. By targeting and correcting the imbalance in immune responses that lupus patients experience, researchers have found a potential cure that may revolutionize the treatment of this autoimmune disease.
https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2024/07/10/scientists-discover-a-cause-of-lupus-and-a-possible-way-to-reverse-it/