Lab-grown ‘mini guts’ could aid in custom Crohn’s disease treatment

[J100]

I came across this link.

Lab-grown ‘mini guts’ could aid in custom Crohn’s disease treatment

Cambridge scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help them better understand Crohn’s disease and find its treatment.

interestingengineering.com

I hope they can come up with a treatment option soon.

 

[asadmom]

We really just need a novel idea, just one, to be carried through completion.

 

[J100]

We really just need a novel idea, just one, to be carried through completion.

I think the big challenge is that many a times the research looks promising but the time from research to a viable treatment option can take years and maybe decades and that too, if there is enough funding by a pharmaceutical company and enough dedication by the researcher.

 

[asadmom]

I think the big challenge is that many a times the research looks promising but the time from research to a viable treatment option can take years and maybe decades and that too, if there is enough funding by a pharmaceutical company and enough dedication by the researcher.

Ideas come up at different times... you think by now one of the big ideas would have come to fruition