Autoimmune Life Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

What goes on in the bathroom isn’t always a comfortable topic of conversation. But if you’re one of the 1.6 million Americans living with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, you know that openness can be a good thing.