Autoimmune Life Blog

Community and news about autoimmune diseases, allergies and more.

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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Blog 2D Welcome Brain
July 3, 2024

Investigating a Little-Understood Cell in MS

Find out how Estelle Bettelli, PhD, and her team are examining guardian cells that may play a big role in MS.
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Blog 2D Environmental Factors
July 3, 2024

Exploring the Exposome: What Role Does Where You Live and What You’re Exposed to Play in Autoimmunity?

Read about BRI’s effort, led by Cate Speake, PhD, and Jane Buckner, MD, to better understand the role environmental factors play in autoimmune disease.
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Featured Gretchen Schoenstein Shamrock 2024 (Editorial)
July 3, 2024

Two Half-Marathons in Two Days on Two Coasts to Support BRI

Learn about the challenge Gretchen Schoenstein took on to raise funds and awareness for BRI.
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Left: Eddie James, PhD; right: Caroline Stefani, PhD
July 3, 2024

BRI’s Innovation Fund Sparks New Discoveries

Learn about one of the first projects launched with this funding, where Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stephanie, PhD, are exploring a new approach to treat type 1 diabetes.
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Blog Main Image - Gretchen Schoenstein R&R 2024 (Editorial)
May 30, 2024

Passing on the Hope: What I Learned Running Two Half-Marathons on Two Coasts in Two Days

Gretchen reflects on her journey from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon, as she ran back-to-back half-marathons to raise autoimmune disease awareness and support immune system disease research at BRI.
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Blog Main Image - Gibson Clara (Editorial)
April 3, 2024

Two Teens, Two Clinical Trials, One Vision: Living Better With T1D

Hear from teenagers Clara and Gibson about their experience participating in research and why it's important to them.
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Blog Main Image - 3D Biological Cells Cancer
April 2, 2024

Why a New Cancer Treatment Can Lead to Autoimmunity

Why do some people taking checkpoint inhibitors for cancer develop side effects that look like autoimmunity? And could these side effects actually be a sign that the treatment is working? Peter Linsley, PhD and Ty Bottorff, PhD, intend to find out.
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