A team of international scientists lead by the University of Toronto have discovered an autoantibody detectable in blood that can be used as a biomarker to predict complicated Crohn’s disease up to seven years prior to diagnosis. The underlying mechanisms of Crohn’s disease, a type of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and…

Credit: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images A new large-scale study shows young adults are more likely to get colorectal cancer (CRC) screening since the release of the 2021 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) CRC screening guidelines, which lowered the age of starting CRC screening from…

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered that food proteins, typically associated with allergic reactions, can help suppress tumor growth in the small intestine. The study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, shows how these proteins trigger the immune system to prevent the formation…

A team led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London have produced an in-depth map of the human heart cells and tissue, as well as giving insight into how they communicate with each other. As reported in Nature, the research team…