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Researchers identify cause and drug targets for bewildering rare children’s disease
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Researchers identify cause and drug targets for bewildering rare children’s disease

by  The Mount Sinai Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have finally cracked the code of a bewildering pediatric disease that sets off a characteristic cytokine storm—a harmful immune system overaction resembling one that arises in COVID-19 cases—and can lead to catastrophic multisystem organ failure or neurodegeneration. Their study, which identifies the cause of the cytokine storm...