Genes are the control panel for an embryo morphing from a ball of cells into organs, muscles, and limbs, but genetics isn’t ...

Did you know if you unfolded your intestines, they'd be taller than a giraffe? Yep, they form a digestive tube so lengthy it's got two sections. The so-called small intestine is about 22 feet long ...

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 ...

Each symptom can stem from the disruption of individual or multiple processes inside the gut ... with these debilitating conditions. Our intestines are densely packed with bacteria that could ...

The man, doctors said was due for colonoscopy, a procedure to check the inside of your entire colon or large intestine for cancer with the help of a long, flexible tube called a colonoscope.

An important element to consider is that the small intestine is a rapidly changing environment inside humans, and it is influenced by a multiplicity of factors. My vision is to use our organoid in ...

Cockroaches are known as hearty insects that can survive just about anything: sewers, decapitation, radiation after a nuclear ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have linked mitochondrial dysfunctions to Crohn’s disease, ...

A new study in mice suggests that dysfunctional mitochondria may change the gut microbiome and thus drive Crohn's disease.

A new study explores the role of dysfunctioning mitochondria and a disrupted gut microbiome as a possible trigger of Crohn's ...

Cruelest of all are the people who tell you not to scratch. They have a point, I admit. Scratching spurs cells in your immune ...

Doctors in Missouri were baffled to spot a fly inside a man's intestines during a routine colon screening. Images taken during the colonoscopy and published in the American Journal of ...