It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues.

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for ...

Hopkins researchers Maximilian Konig and Jordan Green talk with 'The Associated Press' about their research to alter ...

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. Back at the turn of the 21st century, Valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases per ...

It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and tissues.

It may sound surprising but kids can get diseases like lupus and arthritis, too, when their immune system mistakenly attacks ...

Advances being used to treat cancer are now being applied to lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other disorders.

Chinese scientists may have developed a possible alternative to colonoscopies for detecting gastrointestinal diseases with a ...

Autoimmune diseases like lupus, myositis and forms of arthritis can strike children, too. At a sleepaway camp in upstate New ...