The human small intestine is an essential organ that helps us absorb nutrients and vitamins from food. It is an average of 6 meters long and is covered with millions of villi that are separated by ...

As far back as the 16th century, we were mapping out the murky territory of the human small intestine in anatomy books. We ...

If you can see the Flash movie then please ignore this message. Longest section of your digestive tract Your small intestine is around five metres long, making it the longest section of your ...

Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in ...

Now that optimized human small intestinal organoids are available, researchers can expand on what they study. For instance, researchers can use the organoids to make mutations in the DNA of the cells.

Using human iPS cells, the team first created a ... it reportedly grew to the same size as a mouse's small intestine. However, they were not able to confirm whether it had the same functionality ...

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 ...