Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
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Stanford Medicine scientists have linked lupus to a virus that most people carry, sparking discussion about the role of stress and other potential triggers in the development of the disease.
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https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/stress-trauma-lupus/
Fortunately great steps have been taken with diagnosis and awareness (it used to not only be hard to find but very stigmatized, lumped in with psycho-somatic disorders like fibromyalgia, long COVID and chronic lyme).
Personally I think the T-cell immune balance research is promising: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lra-awards-2025-lup...
as well as PARP inhibitors for precision medicine https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05966480
Car-T for lupus thus far has been a nothingburger (Cabaletta Bio, Nkarta, Kyverna, etc).
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