Autoimmune Life Blog

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Blog 3D Genetic Strand Parts
May 29, 2025

Innovation Fund Spotlight: State-of-the-Art Genome Editing To Understand Disease and Develop New Therapies

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Blog Posts focused on: Sound Life Project (SLP); Type 1 Diabetes (T1D); Biorepository

Blog Main Image - T1D Diabetes Medical Technology
May 7, 2025

Autoantibody Reversion: A Mystery That Could Help Prevent T1D

At first, Cate Speake, PhD, and her team weren’t sure that a mysterious phenomenon called autoantibody reversion was actually happening. But no matter how they sliced the data, they saw the same pattern. Learn how autoantibody reversion could unlock new clues to preventing type 1 diabetes.
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Blog Scientific T1D Islet Organoid
February 10, 2025

Innovation Grant Yields Exciting Advances and Additional Funding

Learn how lab-grown human beta cells are helping Eddie James, PhD, and other BRI researchers answer important questions in type 1 diabetes. 
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Blog 3D Biological Antibody
February 10, 2025

Catching Autoimmune Diseases Before They Start

Find out about new advances in autoimmune disease screening from a team led by Cate Speake, PhD.
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Featured BRI Building Exterior 2024
February 10, 2025

A Letter from our President

Read exciting updates and learn what’s on the horizon for 2025 from BRI President Jane Buckner, MD.
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Megan Smithmyer
January 28, 2025

Interview with Dr. Megan Smithmyer: Type 1 Diabetes Biorepository (BRIDge Study)

Dr. Smithmyer is a staff scientist at Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) in the Center for Interventional Immunology. She has kindly agreed to speak with us about what the BRIDge Biorepository is and its importance to the work that scientists like her do in the realm of type 1 diabetes.
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Left: Eddie James, PhD; right: Caroline Stefani, PhD
October 23, 2024

Innovation Fund Spotlight: Lab-Grown Beta Cells Meet State-Of-The-Art Imaging To Answer New Questions About Type 1 Diabetes

BRI investigators Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stefani, PhD, are teaming up to take a unique approach to type 1 diabetes research.
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Blog Main Image - T1D Diabetes Mother Son Testing
October 4, 2024

Kurt Griffin, MD, PhD: Exploring New Ways to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes

Learn about exciting new type 1 diabetes research Dr. Griffin is taking on at BRI.
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Blog Main Image - Zane Burris Peace EDITORIAL
October 2, 2024

Advances in T1D Prediction: An Algorithm To Help Define When a Person May Develop T1D

Learn how a team led by Carla Greenbaum, MD, is using “fancy math” to better understand not only if a person will develop T1D, but when.
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Blog CII T1D Family Day EDITORIAL
September 24, 2024

Second Annual BRI T1D Family Day

June 1, 2024, marked the second annual Benaroya Research Institute T1D Family Day.
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Blog CII T1D Alexis and Harper EDITORIAL
September 24, 2024

Working Toward Cures

Did you know that if risk screening results show you are in the early stages of T1D, you may be eligible to participate in a type 1 diabetes prevention study?
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