Identification of ‘missing microbe’ spurs clinical trial in ulcerative colitis
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
A study published in Cell Host & Microbe has tied ulcerative colitis — a serious intestinal inflammatory condition affecting about 1 million people in the United States alone, and many millions more worldwide — to the near-disappearance of a family of gut-dwelling microbes, and to the resulting depletion of a set of important substances these microbes are especially equipped to make. […]