Video of the week: Prof Fabienne Mackay on lupus control through B cell tweaking

"Lupus Fabienne Mackay" - These search terms will pull up our new video where Professor Fabienne Mackay explains her group's recent discovery on how to stop lupus without stopping the immune system by focussing on a specific receptor (called TACI) found on B cells - the 'soldiers' of the immune system.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1EmIuuhu9U

Breakthrough opens door to safer lupus drugs

Prof Fabienne Mackay's group. Lead research Dr Will Figgett
seated far left, Fabienne Mackay next to him. Pin Shie Quah,
another author on the paper, standing immediately behind
Fabienne.

A ground-breaking discovery by Monash University researchers could revolutionise treatments given to lupus sufferers, saving thousands of people each year from serious illness or death caused by secondary infections.

Lupus is a debilitating and widespread autoimmune disease that can attack any part of the body. It affects one in 1,000 Australians and 5 million people worldwide, and its victims are typically young women. Indigenous and Asian people suffer higher rates than other groups.