Using AI to harness the gut microbiome for therapies
Which microorganisms live in a person’s gut? How do they affect the body? And how are they connected to the onset and progression of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as…
How inflammatory bowel disease promotes colorectal cancer
A chain of immune reactions in the gut—driven by a key signaling protein and a surge of white blood cells from the bone marrow—may help explain why people with inflammatory…
Inflammatory bowel diseases may be detectable at birth
Across the Western world, the prevalence of these chronic and serious conditions, which have no cure, is rising. In Denmark alone, 50,000 people suffer from either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative…