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Patients are taking part in a trial that scientists hope could ultimately lead to a cure for rheumatoid arthritis.

The AuToDeCRA-2 study seeks to prove it is possible to train white blood cell commanders - dubbed the "generals" of the immune system - to order other "soldier" cells to stop attacking healthy tissues.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

With arthritis pain and disease are near synonymous. There is no treatment for the underlying cause, just stopping your autoimmune response selectively which means stopping the damage and the inflammatory pain. There is also pain from the mechanical damage that arthritis causes but if the disease is stopped early then the pain should negligible to the one caused by inflammation.