Discovery of a gene gives hope to Chron's Patients

The recent discovery of a gene that plays a key role in advancing inflammatory processes has excited many researchers who feel that this might be the breakthrough in understanding and treating gastro intestinal diseases such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The gene now named IL-23R has been implicated with many chronic illnesses associated with gastro intestinal system and provides hope for developing more specific formulation drugs and therapies to help patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease; which is known to affect more than one million Americans. Right now the only options for treatment are steroids, anti biotics and anti inflammatory drugs ; all of which are not adequate.
Genetics really seems to hold the key towards treating the world' diseases. More discoveries like this would have massive impacts on treatments for all types of diseases! This discovery gives hope that better treatments of diseases are possible. Science is not finished yet; there is much more out there to discover. This is an exciting prospect!
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