Nov 14, 2025
"One kiss is enough": the viral strategy to reprogram immunity and drive it "self-ish"
Introduction One of humanity’s most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or, colloquially, lupus, Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have found. Several hundred thousand Americans (by some estimates close to a million) and about 5 million worldwide have lupus, in which the immune system…