How a tick could help prevent diseases like MS and cancer

Medical Xpress
February 27, 2026
A team from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute has identified a tick-derived evasin that can bind to two major classes of chemokines, a discovery that is important for the development of therapeutics targeting inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The work is published in the journal Structure.
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Originally published on Medical Xpress on 2/27/2026