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

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 ...

Using a cellular model of the human small intestine, coupled with a lab-based gastrointestinal apparatus that simulates the digestive system, the researchers found that nano-size plastic particles ...

The material prompts the human body to replace damaged tissues with little or no scarring, recreating the healing efficiency of young children. Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Fungi, chiefly yeasts and yeastlike organisms, are present throughout the normal human gastrointestinal ... Two, whose small-intestine aspirates did not contain mycoflora on the initial ...

Researchers have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare for a second.

This was something we also observed in our human studies. This all begs the question: why? Why focus on the small-intestine microbiome? The small intestine is an underexplored microbial organ ...