Scientists Overturn 30 Years of Beliefs About Rare Immune Disease (opens in new tab)

A new study overturns long-held assumptions about the cause of the rare inflammatory disorder MKD, identifying a previously overlooked immune defect. Why does a routine infection trigger dangerous inflammation in some people? Researchers studying mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD), a rare inherited autoinflammatory disorder, may have finally found the answer. Scientists at the Garvan Institute of [...]