Study finds antibodies that target Epstein-Barr virus proteins can also attack proteins in the brain, increasing the likelihood of MS.

A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...

New research highlights a critical link between antibodies produced against Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and the development of ...

Your gut health controls your immune system more than you think. Learn how an imbalanced gut can trigger autoimmunity and ...

EBV antibodies trigger MS by attacking brain proteins. Genetic factors worsen risk. Breakthrough insights for treatment.

Despite EBV’s potential to cause disease, there are few therapeutic options and no licensed vaccines targeting the virus.

Based on the molecular mimicry hypothesis, the team identified 17 microbialpeptides very similar to insulin B:9-23. Testing them in immune cells obtained from type 1 diabetes patients, they identified ...

The authors propose that the mechanistic mimicry between a molecular glue and human disease mutations might enable glue discovery using high-throughput genetic methods to identify potential ...

The following is a summary of “Molecular mimicry-driven autoimmunity in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps,” published in the February 2025 issue of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology by ...

According to Altindis, molecular mimicry is one autoimmune mechanism in which the immune system cannot distinguish between a foreign antigen that shares a structural similarity with a host protein and ...

The mimicry existing on both sides of this lock-and-key set indicates that this interaction is an important step for EBV infection—and represents a major point of viral vulnerability, according to the ...