Breakthrough experimental therapy to treat colon cancer, chronic inflammatory bowel disease

Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 21:00 in Health & Medicine

A groundbreaking experimental therapy has been discovered that has the ability to suppress the development of ulcerative colitis (UC), a disease which causes inflammation in the digestive tract and colon cancer. The treatment utilizes a chemical inhibitor able to block an RNA molecule (microRNA-214) involved in the transmission of genetic information.

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