More than 20,000 Danes suffer from chronic inflammatory bowel disease. They are treated with expensive medication that only dampens their symptoms, or have the affected part of the intestine removed surgically. Researchers at BRIC, University of Copenhagen, have led an international collaboration with the aim of developing a potential new treatment. Their research shows, that a set of unique immature stem cells can be grown and used as living patches in the inflamed intestine. The results are published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
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