Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, pointing toward potential new treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases.

First author Dr. Olivia Bracken (UCL Department of Ageing, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine) said: "Our findings reveal a natural pathway that limits harmful immune cell expansion and helps calm inflammation more quickly.

“Targeting this mechanism could lead to safer treatments that restore immune balance without suppressing overall immunity. With chronic inflammation ranked as a major global health threat, this discovery opens a promising avenue for new therapies.”

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    I’m willing to bet my life that there is some rich motherfucker salivating to monetize this like they did with insulin.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      And there is nothing wrong with that, since it requires money to do drug trials and drug approvals

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        6 days ago

        Money that is frequently government funded/subsidised.

        Also you know that the patent for insulin was sold for a couple bucks because the guy believed the greedy fucks?

        • iopq@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Government didn’t invent drugs like semaglutide. The research into GLP-1 may have been government funded, but semaglutide research was done at novo nordisk

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            19·
            6 days ago

            So, you’re saying it’s okay to socialize the funding and privatize the profits?

            Fuck you.

            If anything had government funding, then the public should get ownership or at the very least, part ownership- proportional to the funding it required.

              • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                5 days ago

                </golfclap>

                1. you don’t actually know that.

                2. by the same logic, it wouldn’t have existed without public funds.

                3. that’s still not an argument for public funding of private profits, you jackass.

                • iopq@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  5 days ago

                  What do you mean you don’t know that? It would eventually be found sometime in the future, but the obesity rate falling this year is because of Novo Nordisk funding the research when they did. Millions of people got their diabetes and weight under control because a for profit firm did this research.

                  Yes, the research in the 1970s was public. Still took decades to bring a real substance to market. We live in a society. You didn’t build that and everything

                  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    5 days ago

                    That something did happen a certain way, doesn’t mean it had to happen that way or couldn’t have happened any other way.

                    Stop being an obtuse loser. I’m running out of insults to express just how much of a prick I think you are for thinking it’s entirely appropriate that our tax dollars make billionaires richer by funding their R and D without appropriate recompense.

                    Novo Nordisk would happily watch you die while holding a cure you couldn’t afford, they’re not worthy of your glazing.