Found a neat article hear discussing a new nanoparticle technology being developed by University of Central Florida researchers. The technology will allow doctors to test for hard to find microbes that can lie dormant deep inside tissue of humans for years before reactivating themselves and causing harm to the human body. A common example of this appears in tuberculosis cases.
The researchers tested their product against Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP), a pathogen that has been linked to the cause of Johne’s Disease in cattle which is similar to Crohn’s Disease in humans. This is good stuff, it could lead to a new therapy, better testing for Crohn’s in humans, or even a cure to Crohn’s Disease in the future.
University of Central Florida appears to be very active in diseases of the intestine, note another article we covered before about UCF researchers developing a new blood test for Crohn’s which they patented and then sold to a pharmaceutical company. I was pretty critical of the researchers doing that as it appears that the science is not about the money, only how much, sort of like in politics and just about anything else nowadays I suppose.