Promising new target emerges for autoimmune diseases

Professor Ruma Banerjee, with Sanjay Garg and Zhonghua Yan of BioChem, have published a new study with results that have implications for scientists looking for ways to enlist regulatory T cells to rein in misguided autoreactive T cells, and for other research areas as well. Regulatory T cells also influence the immune response in cancer, pregnancy, organ transplants and infection. The authors say they have uncovered a fundamentally new mechanism that holds in check aggressive immune cells that can attack the body’s own cells. Michigan Newsroom