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The Fortune Teller by Caravaggio
New Findings | 22 Mar 2013

Resilience Despite Relapse

Frequent early relapses don’t always foretell future disability

Carol Cruzan Morton
Frequent flare-ups in the first few years of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis have long been thought to predict...
Clinical Research
Salt shaker
New Findings | 8 Mar 2013

Salt Sampler

Dietary salt swells autoimmune pathogenic T cells in mice

Carol Cruzan Morton
It's not every day multiple sclerosis studies grab news headlines around the world, but...
Laboratory Research
MS brain lesion
New Findings | 14 Feb 2013

A GWAS Gets Into Shape

Researchers connect gene variants to structure of brain lesions

Mitch Leslie
Researchers have combed through our DNA to pinpoint gene versions that make some people more...
Clinical Research, Methods
Arrest
New Findings | 8 Feb 2013

Resisting Arrest

Regulatory T cells outmatched in active disease

Carol Cruzan Morton
If immunology had its own comic book series, a recurring MS story line would pit...
Laboratory Research
New Findings | 25 Jan 2013

Spinal Vision

Advanced MRI measures discern disability levels better than standard techniques

Carol Cruzan Morton
Brain scans routinely help doctors diagnose MS, but the discrepancy between the amount of visibly damaged tissue and...
Laboratory Research, Methods
New Findings | 9 Jan 2013

Bad Presentation

Researchers identify cells that might incite nerve-damaging T cells in MS

Mitch Leslie
T cells don’t go rogue without provocation. Researchers have now fingered the cells that might...
Laboratory Research
New Findings | 6 Dec 2012

Conducting Neural Dissonance

Ion channel promotes neurodegeneration in mice

Carol Cruzan Morton
Inappropriate immune activity has occupied center stage in the study of MS, but clinical symptoms...
Laboratory Research
New Findings | 16 Nov 2012

Enzyme, Exposed

MALT1 emerges as a potentially druggable target for MS

Stephani Sutherland
In experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and perhaps in multiple sclerosis, too, T helper 17 cells...
Laboratory Research
New Findings | 26 Oct 2012

Benign MS Expresses Itself

Patients who’ve received controversial diagnosis show unique gene-activity profile

Mitch Leslie
Benign multiple sclerosis may sound like a contradiction in terms, but some patients...
Laboratory Research

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