June 23, 2016
New York (April 23, 2015) — An international research team led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators has discovered an answer to why the human immune system ignores roughly 100 trillion beneficial bacteria that populate the gastrointestinal tract. The findings, published April 23 in the journal Science, advance investigators' understanding of how humans maintain a healthy gastrointestinal tract, and may provoke new ways to treat inflammatory bowel disease — including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis — whose origins have been mysterious and treatment difficult.
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