Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system. But some makes it all the way through those twists and turns ...

To help improve understanding of how the small intestine operates in both health and disease, researchers had developed “organoids” by isolating intestinal stem cells from human biopsies. Although ...

The connection between the human liver and the intestine is unique, and the “gut-liver axis” plays a vital role in regulating liver disease pathology. When homeostasis is disturbed, changes in dietary ...

A membrane located in the human digestive system has been upgraded as an organ. The mesentery — previously known as a group of membranes by most scientists — is now known as a single structure and is ...

Who knew that you would wake up one day, only to find that you have 79 organs – rather than the 78 you went to sleep with? It didn't exactly happen this way, but the classification of the mesentery as ...

The new coronavirus can infect organs throughout the body, including lungs, throat, heart, liver, brain, kidneys and the intestines, researchers reported Wednesday. Two separate reports suggest the ...

PITTSBURGH, Penn. - A 16-year-old girl whose intestines were ripped out in a swimming pool when she was a young child in Egypt is raising funds for new organs. Salma Bashir, who currently lives in ...

Platform adopted by 10 of the top 25 biopharmaceutical companies, by U.S. governmental agencies, and by academic research centers worldwide Organs-on-Chips enable drug developers and researchers to ...