The findings are particularly relevant for India, where colorectal cancer is emerging as a growing public health concern ...

NARRATOR: We see the former apple, chocolate bar and sandwich have finally made it into the intestines from the stomach. What a lot of pipes! This is the small intestine. Everything that comes in here ...

The large intestine is the final part of the lower gastrointestinal tract and includes the caecum, appendix, colon, rectum and anal canal. The large intestine's function is to finish digestion of food ...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is an extremely rare disease in which your body can’t absorb enough nutrients from food because part of your small intestine is missing or damaged. The small intestine is ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...