SPRING is here and while many of us are jumping for joy, it is also the time of year when lots of people come down with a bug ...

An artificial intelligence tool developed by Cambridge scientists has proved to be as good as pathologists at diagnosing ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Chewing gum can release hundreds of microplastics—or tiny plastic particles—into saliva, a new study found.While research is still emerging, microplastics have been ...

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

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

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

Most of the time, the intestinal immune system can recognize friend from foe, tolerating myriad foods while destroying ...

Researchers found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of ...