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My first thought was whether this could help with allergies; this seems to be a much, much bigger group of people. Sadly it didn't seem to come up in the artic

• kelnos 3y ago
  It seems like one of the approaches they are looking into is very similar to an existing treatment for allergies, at least on the surface: > In some cases, that means administering the very antigens that the rogue cells are trained to attack, a strategy that can deprogram the cells and dampen the autoimmune response. I go to my allergist every month to get three shots under my skin, which are cocktails of concentrated versions of the various things I'm allergic to. It's been almost 3.5 years since I started, and while my allergies are certainly better than they used to be, they're far from "cured". I don't really expect further improvement; I'm supposed to do another year and a half in order to increase the chances of it "sticking" for longer. But even then, some patients report their allergies come back in full force in anywhere between 5 and 20 years. But they are also looking into: > Other researchers are trying to selectively wipe out the problematic cells, or to introduce suppressive immune cells that have been engineered to target them. ... which I personally think is much more promising, if possibly much more difficult to accomplish.