We will use germ-free mice — mice bred with no bacteria in their guts — to trial three methods of recreating the human small-intestinal microbiome in mice. Previous mouse models have had human ...

This was something we also observed in our human studies. This all begs the question: why? Why focus on the small-intestine microbiome? The small intestine is an underexplored microbial organ ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

The material prompts the human body to replace damaged tissues with little or no scarring, recreating the healing efficiency of young children. Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of ...