Their primary function is to absorb nutrients and vitamins. The small intestine is made up of three parts—the duodenum (first part), the jejunum (middle part), and the ileum (end part).

When left untreated, small intestine cancer may spread to other areas of the body. The small intestine is connected to both the stomach and the large intestine, so cancer cells may spread to those ...

The apparatus used to model absorption in the small intestine can be set up like this. At regular intervals the liquid inside and outside of the Visking tubing is sampled and tested for starch ...

We will use germ-free mice — mice bred with no bacteria in their guts — to trial three methods of recreating the human small-intestinal microbiome in mice. Previous mouse models have had human ...