Research Supports Promise of Cell Therapy for Bowel Disease

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 08:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues have identified a special population of adult stem cells in bone marrow that have the natural ability to migrate to the intestine and produce intestinal cells, suggesting their potential to restore healthy tissue in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

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