Autoimmune Life Blog

Community and news about autoimmune diseases, allergies and more.

Blog Main Image - Clinician Holding Kidney Model
May 7, 2025

Finding the Root Cause of Lupus

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Blog Main Image - T1D Diabetes Medical Technology
May 7, 2025

Autoantibody Reversion: A Mystery That Could Help Prevent T1D

At first, Cate Speake, PhD, and her team weren’t sure that a mysterious phenomenon called autoantibody reversion was actually happening. But no matter how they sliced the data, they saw the same pattern. Learn how autoantibody reversion could unlock new clues to preventing type 1 diabetes.
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May 7, 2025

A New Approach to Autoimmune Disease Treatment Takes a Big Step Forward

BRI’s Buckner Lab has been pioneering an innovative approach that turns cells that cause T1D into cells that protect you from T1D. Now, new research from Soo Jung Yang, PhD, and Ritika Tewari, PhD, shows this strategy may help treat other autoimmune diseases too.
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Blog Scientific T1D Islet Organoid
February 10, 2025

Innovation Grant Yields Exciting Advances and Additional Funding

Learn how lab-grown human beta cells are helping Eddie James, PhD, and other BRI researchers answer important questions in type 1 diabetes. 
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Blog 3D Biological Macrophage
February 10, 2025

Computational Skills Grant Fuels Collaboration and Discovery

Learn how Susana Orozco, PhD, Hannah DeBerg, PhD, and Jessica Hamerman, PhD, are working together to apply the latest tools to long-standing research questions.
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Blog 3D Biological Antibody
February 10, 2025

Catching Autoimmune Diseases Before They Start

Find out about new advances in autoimmune disease screening from a team led by Cate Speake, PhD.
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Featured BRI Building Exterior 2024
February 10, 2025

A Letter from our President

Read exciting updates and learn what’s on the horizon for 2025 from BRI President Jane Buckner, MD.
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Megan Smithmyer
January 28, 2025

Interview with Dr. Megan Smithmyer: Type 1 Diabetes Biorepository (BRIDge Study)

Dr. Smithmyer is a staff scientist at Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) in the Center for Interventional Immunology. She has kindly agreed to speak with us about what the BRIDge Biorepository is and its importance to the work that scientists like her do in the realm of type 1 diabetes.
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Left: Jessica Hamerman, PhD; right: John Ray, PhD
October 23, 2024

Innovation Fund Spotlight: Single-Cell CRISPR Screening To Explore Genetics and Autoimmune Diseases

Together, Jessica Hamerman, PhD, and John Ray, PhD, are exploring the genetic roots of autoimmune disease using single-cell CRISPR screening.
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Left: Eddie James, PhD; right: Caroline Stefani, PhD
October 23, 2024

Innovation Fund Spotlight: Lab-Grown Beta Cells Meet State-Of-The-Art Imaging To Answer New Questions About Type 1 Diabetes

BRI investigators Eddie James, PhD, and Caroline Stefani, PhD, are teaming up to take a unique approach to type 1 diabetes research.
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October 4, 2024

Kazushige Ninomiya, PhD: Finding New Answers in Cancer

Read about the questions Dr. Ninomiya will ask about one of the most devastating forms of cancer.
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