REGULATORY T CELLS AND ROADSIDE REPAIR

Gut hopes that our readers appreciate the journal's efforts to keep them at the cutting edge of knowledge through our Science @lerts. This month's contribution is penned (sadly, an obsolete instrument) by one of our associate editors, Tom MacDonald, who comes from the Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair at Southampton University (which sounds like the immunological equivalent of one of those roadside organisations which help out if your car breaks down). One look at the abstract's wider discussion shows the task Tom has set himself. Yet he succeeds quite brilliantly in interpreting the nuances of immunoregulation of T cells. Unmissable.

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COLITIS AND CLINICS: THE PATIENT WILL SEE YOU NOW

Clinical gastroenterologists are concerned to optimise their management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. …