Take a quick look on your body. We are a combination of one hundred thousand billion cells. Inside each one of them, we can find all our DNA that holds more than twenty thousand genes. DNA remains in the cell nucleus and, when its information is needed, it doesn’t leave it. Instead, it is transcribed in a different kind of … Read More
World IBD Day 2019
Over ten million people worldwide live with IBD, a disease that goes unnoticed by most of the people around them. To increase its visibility today we celebrate world IBD day. Under the motto “Making the invisible visible” over 50 countries are joining this initiative to show support to all the IBD warriors out there and to show to the society … Read More
May New Deal Reads
A JAK1 Selective Kinase Inhibitor and Tofacitinib Affect Macrophage Activation and Function. De Vries L. C. S et al. Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 25 (4) 2019. Janus kinases (JAKs) are involved in the intestinal inflammation found in IBD. A common treatment for this disease is tofacitinib, a drug that inhibits different JAKs. Although this therapy is effective, it doesn’t target only … Read More
