Study showcases potential new oral treatment for inflammatory bowel disease
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
For patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the possibility of taking one pill to bring long-lasting relief might seem too good to be true. Scientists are on the brink of making that happen, thanks to a recent proof-of-concept study, in which the severity of a form of IBD in mice was dramatically reduced with one oral dose of a protein isolated from a bacterial biofilm.