In a study supported by the Foundation, “A team involving researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Stanford University School of Medicine and Oxford University have developed a way to find crucial protein fragments that drive autoimmunity, as well as the immune cells that respond to them. The findings, published Dec. 7 in Nature, open a promising pathway to diagnose and treat autoimmuneAny disorder in which loss of function or destruction of normal tissue arises from humoral or cellular immune responses to the body’s own tissue constituents.... diseases.”