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Study of a Million Blood Cells Helps Explain Why Women Face More Autoimmune Disease


Autoimmune diseases, where the body's own immune system mistakenly goes on the attack, are much more common in women – and a new study analyzing more than 1.25 million blood cells goes a long way to explaining why.

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