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Several of us in academia — and also the pharmaceutical industry — are pursing the long-standing dream of many immunologists: inducing tolerance against specific target antigens in autoimmune diseases like MS. am confident that sooner or later, we will be successful - Roland Martin Prof Dr.
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A groundbreaking finding on multiple sclerosis is dividing scientists
Epstein-Barr virus has infected about 95 percent of adults. Yet only a tiny fraction of them will develop multiple sclerosis...
If this virus that infects nearly everyone on Earth causes multiple sclerosis, it does so in concert with other actors in a choreography that scientists don’t yet understand. Amid that lingering uncertainty, scientists are discussing how to proceed from here. Antivirals or drugs that target infected cells, some of which are already in development, might help MS patients. Vaccines against EBV are in development, too… But other researchers aren’t so sure the case is closed, and they suggest putting more emphasis on understanding how the virus might interact…
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Researchers Find A Web Of Factors Behind Multiple Sclerosis
As may be the case in Alzheimer's disease, it's looking more and more as though MS strikes when infectious, genetic and immune factors gang up to eventually impair the function of neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Researchers are hoping to better understand this network of influences to develop more effective ways to treat MS and perhaps prevent it in the first place.
The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.
New research proves a virus — one that almost all of us have — “causes” multiple sclerosis.
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A chance finding may lead to a treatment for multiple sclerosis
A neat example of the role of serendipity in science.
Emerging research and treatments
There's never been a more exciting time in MS research.
Link between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis is a crucial discovery for people living with MS
In a study published in the journal Science, researchers found that Epstein Barr virus (EBV) – the virus that causes mononucleosis – is also an environmental trigger for MS. EBV is common, with more than 95 per cent of people being infected during their lifetime.
Multiple Sclerosis: Could This Be The Cure?
Currently, there is no cure for MS. However 'the Zamboni' a new theory and possible treatment challenges the established concept of MS being an autoimmune disease.
Multiple Sclerosis: Hope Through Research
Although researchers have not been able to identify the cause of MS with any certainty, there has been excellent progress in other areas of MS research—especially in the development of new treatments to prevent exacerbations of the disease. New discoveries are constantly changing MS treatment options and helping to reduce MS-related disability.
Multiple Sclerosis: How Scientists Developed a Breakthrough Drug
Inside the long and winding path to multiple sclerosis treatment.
Researchers develop a promising new ‘Trojan horse’ treatment for multiple sclerosis
Currently there are few treatment options for MS, with most treating symptoms and not the disease itself. Some front-line therapies attempt to modify the immune system, but do so by suppressing the entire immune system, thus rendering the patient susceptible to infections. The approach that we have developed is to target specifically the cells that are causing disease.
This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study
In 2009, a breakthrough: a charming Italian researcher, Dr. Paolo Zamboni, claimed to have cured his wife's MS by "unblocking" the veins in her neck. He theorized MS wasn't an autoimmune disorder but a vascular one. The research was counterintuitive, it gave people with the disease hope, and it had an appealing personal tale behind it, involving one man's quest to save his wife. It was catnip for health reporters, who hailed "liberation therapy" as a romance-fueled medical triumph. Sadly, however, Zamboni's discovery was more hype than breakthrough.
This isn’t hype: Canadian doctors just reversed severe MS using stem cells
The game changer for Molson was an experimental chemotherapy and stem cell bone marrow transplant she got in 2002 as part of a study in Canada. Molson was one of a small cohort of 24 people with MS who received the high-risk therapy. Of the 24 patients, 70 percent saw the progression of their disease halted or reversed.
UK to test existing drugs as treatment for MS in world-first trial
Researchers will test several drugs at once to speed up identification of those that slow or reverse symptoms
Vitamin D Levels May Help Predict Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis
It is well known that there is a relationship between higher levels of sun exposure (sunlight is the most efficient source of Vitamin D) and lower risk of developing MS, as people who live farther from the equator have a higher incidence of MS. It is for this reason that Vitamin D is well regarded as anti- inflammatory, or boosting the immune system.
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The Mono Project
Our research mission is to learn how Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes disease and to develop a vaccine against it.
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