There is hope for many of the 5 million sufferers of colitis thanks to scientists at Israel’s Bar Ilan University. They have identified that the gene tmf1 controls the production of beneficial probiotic bacteria in the gut, which stop colitis developing.
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Breakthrough in colitis research
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