A recent article in Medical Life Science News reports that a recent study has discovered a new mechanism that interacts with an immune cell receptor called Mincle. This receptor regulates…
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Scientists believe that “it is in our DNA.” According to a recent article in EurekAlert, a five-year study formulated through Open Targets together with the Sanger Institute and their…
The drugs for current inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients only help around 50% of patients. And some who do find relief find it short lived as remissions often occur.…
As originally reported in Cambridge Independent, inflammatory bowel diseases are about to get a boost in research after Health Data Research UK has awarded a £5 million grant to a…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a team of researchers affiliated with UT Southwestern were successfully able to curtail inflammation-associated colorectal cancer in mice by precisely editing the animals' gut…
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is actually a term used to classify a few different conditions. Two of these are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. These are rare…
As reported in EurekAlert, an exciting new treatment method has entered the conversation to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Researchers have successfuly used mice population to show that precision cutting…
According to a story from the Broad Institute, there are still many mysteries to uncover related to inflammatory bowel diseases, which includes the rare form ulcerative colitis. The understanding of…
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Dr. Tracy Grikscheit is a leading surgeon in the field of tissue engineering. Dr. Grikscheit, together with her colleagues at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, co-authored an article for the…
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is the overarching term for both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. In Canada, there are around 270,000 individuals living with the one of…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have uncovered a never-before discovered immunodeficiency disease. How It Came About It started with a newborn boy who had a myriad…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a team of scientists affiliated with the University of Cambridge have pioneered a new test that could herald a new development in the treatment…
According to an article from CW associate WBCB, Dutch startup Nori Health has started open enrollment in the six-week test of its eponymous experimental chatbot, Nori. Nori aims to help…
In a recent video interview with Healio, Dr. David Rubin recapped some of his discussion at the 2019 Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit. At the summit, he and his colleagues spoke about…
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the collective term used to describe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. These conditions cause diarrhea, rectal bleeding, fatigue, weight loss, and rectal bleeding. These…
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an autoimmune condition which causes inflammation throughout the digestive tract. There are two main forms of the condition- Crohn's disease and the…
According to a story from Reuters, a new website developed by the American Gastroenterological Association is meant to help women that have inflammatory bowel disease have safe and healthy pregnancies.…
Perhaps the most difficult thing about rare disease research is that not only do the conditions affect only a small portion of the population, but like every diagnosis, they affect…
When you're told your child has a rare, life-threatening condition you exhaust every resource trying to find answers. But the rarer the condition, the harder those answers are to find…
The first week of December is Crohn's & Colitis Awareness Week! Courtesy of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, there are a few things we can do as rare disease advocates to…
In 2013 researchers discovered something interesting about the protein BH4. They found that by inhibiting the protein they could reduce patient's pain. A drug was created called Quartet, and it…
All manner of microbes make their home in our intestines. This delicately balanced system is known as the microbiome. A recent study shows that certain cells in the intestines regulate…
“If you half-ass something, you should only expect to get half an ass back.” This was the sort of lesson I learned from my dad. The moral is there, even…
You recently learned that your child has inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Now you’re taking an important step: learning about the condition, how it’s treated, and how your child can learn…
The goal has always been to better manage and get a diagnosis earlier for inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The newest study at the University of…
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