It’s no secret that too many sugary drinks can cause general health issues. Overdoing it overwhelms your intestines, so your body sends it elsewhere, like the liver.

The interaction between a common gene variant and gut microbes may trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis, new ...

The cells helps the snakes absorb the bones of their prey — and might show up in other animals that chomp their meals whole.

The potential for these kinds of machines to reshape computer processing, increase energy efficiency, and revolutionize ...

TLR4-PIEZO1 interaction promotes 5-HT mediated intestinal motility dysfunction in prenatal LPS-exposed offspring mice.

Cancer can be reversed. Yes, you heard it right. In a remarkable breakthrough, a team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...

While you may feel like the same person day after day, science tells a fascinatingly different story. Your body is in a ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

Our cells carry their own sexual identity. That’s science, not ideology Research on sex differences is being defunded and censored — but our very cells differ according to sex ...

Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- and stem cells, tuft cells can survive severe injury such as ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In a preclinical study, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators showed that ...

Intestinal epithelial cells include a variety of different mature cell types, each with important physiological functions, including nutrient absorption (small intestine absorptive enterocytes), ...