Studies looking at A muciniphila’s interaction with the immune system in mice have revealed that it calms the immune system ...

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

On the left, large intestine tissue from a healthy person; on the right, from a patient with active C. difficile infection. The white areas show the cells that line the intestine (epithelial cells).

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus can both cause a newborn to be unable to pass their first stool. Learn the different ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In ...