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Home > LMB In The News > Leprosy turns the immune system against itself

Leprosy turns the immune system against itself

Published on 30 August, 2017

An international team of scientists, including Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group in the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit, based at the LMB, have discovered that Leprosy hijacks our immune system, turning an important repair mechanism into one that causes potentially irreparable damage to our nerve cells. More…

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