PET offers insight into triggers of autoimmune inflammation in MS

PET imaging is helping scientists better understand the triggers of autoimmune inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study. It’s a disease that has eluded scientists for many years, but they are now getting closer to finding better management therapies.

“There has never been a cure,” Adam Rosenberg, the study’s first author, told HCB News. “The strategy has been to help increase the length of the inactive phases of MS when a patient is not feeling its effects as acutely.” Read more.