Promising Application for Stem Cells: Crohn's Complications

Promising Application for Stem Cells: Crohn’s Complications

By
Dennis Douda

June 8, 2016

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New research at Mayo Clinic is bringing hope to hundreds of thousands of Crohn’s disease patients. Their extreme pain from complications is both physical and emotional and, for many, incurable. But, an innovation using the patient’s own stem cells seems to work extremely well in early testing. Eventually, researchers say, it may be used to treat Crohn’s disease in general. Here’s Dennis Douda for the Mayo Clinic News Network.

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