Doctors Have Found A New Way To Treat Intestinal Diseases

Doctors Have Found A New Way To Treat Intestinal Diseases.
Scientists speak they have found a respect to grow intestinal stem cells and get them to develop into divers types of mature intestinal cells. This achievement could one day lead to new ways to premium gastrointestinal disorders such as ulcers or Crohn's disease by replacing a patient's old loot with one that is free of diseases or inflamed tissues, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

And "Being able to yield a large inventory of intestinal stem cells could be incredibly gainful for stem cell therapy, where the cells could be delivered to patients to treat diseases such as Crohn's bug and ulcerative colitis," study co-senior author Jeffrey Karp, of the biomedical engineering strife at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in a hospital news release. "These cells could also be effective for pharmaceutical companies to screen and identify new drugs that could regulate diseases including mutinous bowel disease, diabetes and obesity.

However, to date there hasn't been a way to expand intestinal stanch cell numbers". The findings offer possibilities for a range of medical advances, another researcher said. "This opens the door to doing all kinds of things, ranging from someday engineering a unfledged instinctual for patients with intestinal diseases to doing drug screening for safety and efficacy," said co-senior initiator Robert Langer pricing. The study appeared online Dec 1, 2013 in the almanac Nature Methods.