A massive £1.8million research grant has been awarded to University of Edinburgh to examine the currently incurable Crohn’s disease.

https://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2019/04/funding-for-crohns-disease-research-in-edinburgh/

This article may be of interest to a number of you. This is a most welcome step in the right direction and here's hoping that the vast amount of money afforded to the research team can provide a cure.

This award will assist experts assess and monitor outcomes for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects 120,000 people in the UK.

Many who have the disease undergo repeated surgery to correct some of the effects. The research will concentrate on mitochondria which give off danger signals that immune cells confuse with bacteria. It will also try to develop a simple non-invasive test to determine whether the inflamed bowel wall is healed.

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