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Pinpointing the Connection Between Cancer and Autoimmune Disease
It might seem unlikely for scientists at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), a research institute focused on causes and cures for autoimmune disease, to study cancer. Scientists like Dr.
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Big Data Fuels Autoimmune Disease Discoveries
When gene sequencing suddenly became affordable, researchers were confronted with an enormous opportunity – and an enormous problem.
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Meet the Dog Who is a Weapon Against IBD
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Discovering a New 'Attacker' Cell in Diabetes
Principal Investigator Karen Cerosaletti, PhD, and colleagues have applied single-cell science to better understand type 1 diabetes with some surprising and significant findings.
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Supporting Medical Research on the Golf Course
Benaroya Research Institute will celebrate eight years of partnership with the Boeing Classic at this year’s tournament on August 20-26.
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Getting Outside This Summer with Autoimmune Diseases
For many, especially Seattleites used to persistent rain and overcast skies, the summer might just be the best time of the year.
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What T1D Can Teach Us: A Sibling’s Perspective
Our family learned a lot about type 1 diabetes in the weeks after our son Peter was diagnosed just a few days before his third birthday.
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Teaming Up on an Allergy Research Breakthrough
In 2010, Erik Wambre, PhD, made a discovery that had the potential to reshape how allergies are studied, diagnosed and treated. Researchers had always thought each allergy was caused by a different “bad guy” cell. But Dr.
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Run, Bike, Swim – And Sign Up for a Biorepository at the Seafair Triathlon!
Are you competing in this year’s Benaroya Research Institute Seafair Triathlon? If so, you may know something about autoimmune disease – and what we’re doing to fight it.
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Living with Lupus: Lori Carter’s Story
Lori Carter is a national sales manager, a personal health coach, a wife and a mom. Her life was moving a million miles an hour before she was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease, in April of 2013.