Oncology & Cancer

How chronic intestinal inflammation can cause cancer

Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are inflammations of the gastrointestinal tract which flare up in phases and are accompanied by bloody bowel movements, diarrhea and severe impairment of the quality of life. IBD patients ...

Neuroscience

Revealing the logic of the body's 'second brain'

Researchers at Michigan State University have made a surprising discovery about the human gut's enteric nervous system that itself is filled with surprising facts. For starters, there's the fact that this "second brain" exists ...

Oncology & Cancer

The effect of acute exercise in humans on cancer cell growth

New research presented at The Physiological Society's Annual Conference Physiology 2021 shows that molecules released into the bloodstream during exercise (such as small proteins) can act directly on bowel cancer cells to ...

Immunology

Predicting whether bowel cancers will respond to immunotherapy

Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London have studied colorectal cancer and found that levels of specific immune cells are the best predictors of whether immunotherapy will be effective in individual ...

Immunology

Stopping the onset and progression of intractable immune diseases

The development of therapeutic drugs for inflammatory bowel disease, an intractable immune disease, and multiple sclerosis—an autoimmune disorder—is gaining traction. A research team from the Department of Life Sciences ...

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