Multiple sclerosis Quote by Sonia Shah

“If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.”

— Christena Cleveland

“Medical communities believe multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease resulting from your immune system somehow confusing areas of your nerve sheath with invaders and…

— Anthony William

“If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.”

— Christena Cleveland

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It…

— Bruce Beutler

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

— Anonymous

Environment, not genes, plays starring role in human immune variation.

— Anonymous

“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want…

— Randolph M. Nesse

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

“Within the region of DNA that was apparently undergoing evolution in response to the plague is a family of genes with typically clunky names.*…

— Adam Rutherford

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

— Merry Clayton

“The races I study still employ their immune systems, and the parallels between those systems and us as a race are striking. For we…

— Hugh Howey