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Early experiments—many of them headed by Müller’s team—suggest that CAR-T therapies can work against several different autoimmune diseases, including myositis, systemic sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, and myasthenia gravis, with few side effects.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
When the results came back, she was diagnosed with benign acute childhood myositis, a rare disease that typically follows a viral upper respiratory infection, such as the flu, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
One type, inclusion body myositis, can also cause weakness in hands and feet.
—Laura Landro, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
To get Bassoon back to a place where the turtle could care for himself and safely return to the ocean, the National Aquarium took the reptile in for a CT scan, which helped veterinarians diagnose Bassoon with myositis of the jaw muscles.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 12 Apr. 2022
Krukow has dealt for years with a degenerative muscle disease, inclusion body myositis, that has left him barely able to walk and losing some dexterity in his hands.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
Franco Patino first got into biomedical engineering to help his mother, who suffers from inclusion body myositis, a rare condition that weakens damages and muscles.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2021
The cause was myositis, a muscle weakening and wasting disease, said a son, Christian Blood.
—Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
The tumor, known as a thymoma, caused a neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis that attacked the communication between his nerve cells and muscles, as well as inflammation and breakdown of muscle tissue called myositis.
—S. Wayne Carter Jr., baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2021
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
When the results came back, she was diagnosed with benign acute childhood myositis, a rare disease that typically follows a viral upper respiratory infection, such as the flu, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
One type, inclusion body myositis, can also cause weakness in hands and feet.
—Laura Landro, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
To get Bassoon back to a place where the turtle could care for himself and safely return to the ocean, the National Aquarium took the reptile in for a CT scan, which helped veterinarians diagnose Bassoon with myositis of the jaw muscles.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 12 Apr. 2022
Krukow has dealt for years with a degenerative muscle disease, inclusion body myositis, that has left him barely able to walk and losing some dexterity in his hands.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
Franco Patino first got into biomedical engineering to help his mother, who suffers from inclusion body myositis, a rare condition that weakens damages and muscles.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2021
The cause was myositis, a muscle weakening and wasting disease, said a son, Christian Blood.
—Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
The tumor, known as a thymoma, caused a neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis that attacked the communication between his nerve cells and muscles, as well as inflammation and breakdown of muscle tissue called myositis.
—S. Wayne Carter Jr., baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2021
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“Myositis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myositis. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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myositis
noun
myo·si·tis
ˌmī-ə-ˈsīt-əs 
: muscular discomfort or pain from infection or an unknown cause
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