When real patients have unprecedented positive outcomes to a new treatment, it's tempting to talk about it as 'breakthrough' for medical science. This describes the excitement around a new report from researchers in Germany of a radical new treatment for lupus. The patients in the study – five people with severe lupus – went into remission following pioneering CAR T-cell treatment, which uses genetically altered cells. So what is lupus, why is this such big news, and what could it mean for other patients and diseases? Lupus and the immune system About five million people are affected by some form of lupus worldwide.

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