This autoimmune disease, in which the patient's own immune system attacks the joints, afflicts 2 million people.
Queen bees are creatures of circumstance, encircling potential rivals in much the same way as the immune system attacks a foreign body.
This is Type 1 diabetes, a disease in which the immune system attacks and kills the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, skin, major organs and central nervous system as the immune system attacks healthy tissues and cells.
The drug aimed to ease the deterioration caused by multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease in which the immune system attacks the nerves, eventually leaving some patients wheelchair-bound and unable to move.
This medicine is an impressive collection of firsts: not only is it the first drug approved to treat lupus, a potentially fatal disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, it is also one of the first drugs to come out of genomics, the systematic evaluation of human genetics that was epitomized by the human genome project a decade ago.
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But the condition also resembles an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
Approximately 400, 000 people in the United States have MS, marked by an abnormal immune system that attacks and kills a person's own brain cells.
Lack of intrinsic factor may be due to an autoimmune reaction, in which your immune system mistakenly attacks the stomach cells that produce it.
Crohn's disease and colitis, two similar diseases in which a person's immune system violently attacks the lining of the intestines, may be more common now than in the days before sanitation and effective drugs because there aren't enough intestinal worms to keep immune systems busy.
Apple has released a software update, designed to protect users of its Leopard operating system from malware attacks.
Hirai went on to talk vaguely about increased security measures aimed at preventing future hacks, including upgraded encryption, more firewall protections, and an early warning system to detect attacks.
The key finding for vaccine development is that the "head" and "body" portions of the VP4 protein contain many of the targets that the immune system recognises when it attacks the virus and protects against infection, they say.
This wouldn't be able to replicate the function of the vestibular system, but it could act like a pacemaker for people who have attacks that make the vestibular system go haywire, like sufferers of Meniere's disease.
And like a cold, it attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control have said.
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But the nature of the system being built means such attacks are easily spotted.
And like a cold, it attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
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And like a cold, NCoV infection attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
Novel coronavirus acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.
The goal is to create "intelligent" computers that can handle simple tasks, such as correcting system failures and warding off attacks from hackers, without human intervention.
The rate of false alarms was significantly lower than that of competing systems, and when the system was presented with simulated attacks, it detected all of the common security breaches it was tested against.
Lewis Mighty was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2008, a childhood cancer which attacks the sympathetic nervous system.
Patch the system and stay secure from malicious attacks, or keep their freedom to install much-loved unauthorized apps?
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The United States says a missile-defense system is aimed at preventing missile attacks from rogue states such as Iran, not at blunting Russia's nuclear deterrent.
The system was partially disrupted following the attacks, but damage to the stations was minimal and both had reportedly reopened by the evening rush hour.
For example, making vaccines more effective and turning off the immune system when it goes wrong and attacks the body in autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, he said.
The student loan system is facing sustained "phishing" attacks, with 1, 400 websites shut down this year.
Some questioned whether videogames and graphically violent Hollywood movies should be limited, and nearly all of the politicians who spoke about the shooting on Sunday morning talk shows wondered how the mental-health system may be failing to prevent such attacks.
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Chamber officials say they haven't been able to keep intruders completely out of their system, but now can detect and isolate attacks quickly.
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