Last year, four independent research groups reported a linkage between polymorphisms in the complement factor H (CFH) gene to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness ...

Some of the greatest advancements in modern medicine started with a scientist taking a risk to boldly pursue new areas of research. For scientists at Alexion — a leading biotech company dedicated to ...

However, the discovery that receptors for complement activation fragments are expressed by almost all immune cells — including B cells and T cells — and that these cells can sense and convert the ...