Autoimmune Life Blog

Recently diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients often ask: did a certain food cause my disease, and can another food cure it?

Internal inflammation, frequent bathroom trips and abdominal pain: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can be extremely painful, inconvenient, and uncomfortable to talk about. Chances are, however, that you probably know someone living with IBD, as it affects 1.6 million—or one in 200—Americans.

Judi and Tracey first learned about autoimmune diseases when Tracey’s brother Pat was diagnosed first with Hodgkin’s disease, then with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a rare autoimmune blood disease. Six weeks after his ITP diagnosis, Pat passed away.

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.

When gene sequencing suddenly became affordable, researchers were confronted with an enormous opportunity – and an enormous problem.

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Principal Investigator Karen Cerosaletti, PhD, and colleagues have applied single-cell science to better understand type 1 diabetes with some surprising and significant findings.

Benaroya Research Institute will celebrate eight years of partnership with the Boeing Classic at this year’s tournament on August 20-26.

For many, especially Seattleites used to persistent rain and overcast skies, the summer might just be the best time of the year.

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.