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| Medical News - Irritable-Bowel Syndrome | |||
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For the first time, scientists have used a genetically engineered "friendly" bacterium to deliver a therapy. The treatment is for bowel disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease, which affects one in 400 people in the UK and for which there is no cure. The bacterium Bacteroides ovatus activates a protein when exposed to a specific type of sugar, xylan. Read more: Irritable-Bowel Syndrome News From Medical News Today
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