Technique Converts Harmful Autoantibodies into Anti-Inflammatory Antibodies <i>In Vivo</i>

Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School have found a way to directly convert harmful autoantibodies in the body into anti-inflammatory antibodies, which in initial tests reduced inflammation in two mouse models of autoantibody-induced disease. The technology, developed in the laboratory of Robert Anthony, Ph.D., at the Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases in the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, involves administering en