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black licorice
Coverage of black licorice in the Nexus archive.
- Black licorice compound shows promise against inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers developed a stem cell-based model of the human intestine to discover new IBD treatments and identified glycyrrhizin as a promising anti-inflammatory candidate. The compound reduced intestinal damage and cell death in lab-grown tissue and mice. This breakthrough may transform how new IBD treatments are discovered.