"When the team transplanted these cells into mice with a form of inflammatory bowel disease, within three hours the stem cells had attached to the damaged areas of the mouse intestine and integrated with the gut cells to repair the damage.
Dr Kim Jensen, a Wellcome Trust researcher and Lundbeck Foundation fellow, who led the study, said: "We found that the cells formed a living plaster over the damaged gut. They seemed to respond to the environment they had been placed in and matured accordingly to repair the damage.
- See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/scientists-explore-using-stem-cells-to-treat-inflammatory-bowel-disease#sthash.3WXg1VMF.dpuf"
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