Professor John Silke

Laboratory Head, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Honorary, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

The genetic mutation behind a new autoinflammatory disease

Scientists have discovered a new human autoinflammatory disease that causes repeated episodes of debilitating fever and inflammation

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