It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

A key pressure-sensing protein involved in gut motility could be utilized for precision-targeted treatments for intestinal ...

What would you see if you peered inside a human small intestine? Here’s a glimpse at its structure, revealing a community of cells with different functions. A biopsy like this is generally very small ...

researchers analyzed gene activity in mouse and human gut neurons and found that the Piezo1 gene, which produces the PIEZO1 ...

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 ...

In a recent study, FMI researchers have shed light on how intestinal organoids form crypts, the pockets that house stem cells ...

Human intestines are essentially a hollow tube ... Keller credits the project's success to the team's interdisciplinary ideas from biology, chemistry and physics, and to the sharks themselves.

Researchers have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies for colorectal and other types of cancer. A professor of pediatrics-developmental biology and an assistant professor of ...

If we stretched out all the folds in the small intestine this would be the area of a tennis court. Are you a teacher looking for more resources? In this collection of biology clips, doctor and ...