PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory of how phase changes could occur in two-dimensional materials.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) causes significant morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Patients at high risk of ILD should be screened using ...

Serum CXCL6 was higher in ANCA-associated vasculitis with interstitial lung disease and independently predicted ILD progression, suggesting a blood biomarker to identify AAV-ILD and monitor risk.