Hydrogel Helps Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term, autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and deformity of the joints—affecting close to 1% of the world’s population. While many researchers are focused on trying to understand better the biology of how RA begins, other scientists are developing improved technologies to alleviate the debilitating symptoms associated with the disease. To that end, scientists at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity, within the Institute for Basic Scie