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IBD is a disease for which there is no cure yet. The symptoms are diarrhoea, fever and chronic abdominal pain. In periods, the intestine becomes swollen and sore, which impairs the ability to absorb nutrients and fluids. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are examples of the most common conditions of IBD. At the same time that Eduardo Villablanca, Karolinska Institutet, tries to understand the exact reason why some people get IBD but not others, he wants to develop medicines for those already affected. In cultured mini-intestines, new drugs against IBD, which have been developed with the help of research on, among other things, zebrafish, are tested.