A bacterium of the gut microbiome seems to spark an autoimmune disease in the kidneys by leaking antigens that trigger the immune system.
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Mysthera Therapeutics AG has launched in Basel with $3.5m in seed funding from founding investor Forty51 Ventures. The capital will be used to advance its preclinical portfolio in a variety of autoimmune indications. The focus is on pan-PIM kinase inhibitors that uniquely modulate multilineage immune cell functions.
Italian researchers have successfully ameliorated several IL-1-based autoimmune disorders by gene therapy into transplantable hematopoietic stem cells of mice.