Autoimmune Life Blog

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an immensely complex disease, which means it’s going to take many minds—and many approaches—to conquer it. BRI plays a key role in this fight. Here are three ways we're using our expertise to improve research worldwide.

When Merry Malnar was 11 years old, her mom took her in for a routine physical and asked the doctor to test for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Merry seemed perfectly healthy, but T1D ran in the family and her mom feared Merry would inherit it too.

Halloween is meant to be spooky, but staying on top of your symptoms shouldn’t be scary. For those living with autoimmune diseases, trick-or-treating can feel more like a trick than a treat.

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.