INSERM, a French medical research agency, who is based at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, has found that 70% of the susceptibility to schistosomiasis is under the control of one or two genes that regulate liver repair.

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Researchers are now studying whether gut neurons, which can be sampled through a routine colonoscopy, may help clinicians diagnose and track the disease without invasive brain biopsies, says Pascal Derkinderen, a professor of neurology at Inserm, France's national institute of health.

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