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Which might be controlled by immune ablation; safer targeted forms of destroying all immune cells would be a very good way to stop all forms of autoimmunity, and would act as a good backstop to immunotherapies in general.

Right now immune ablation is pretty rough chemotherapy, but has nonetheless been shown to put multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes into remission. There are new approaches to targeted cell killing under development now (such as Oisin Biotechnologies' system) that should be much better, with minimal side-effects. Couple that with a cell therapy to accelerate replacement of immune cells and it looks pretty promising.



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