Explore new treatments for bowel conditions. Research shows hope for short bowel syndrome by reprogramming the large ...

They found that deleting this gene in either mouse or human colon cells causes the cells to start functioning like cells of the lowest portion of the small intestine, called the ileum, which ...

The structure of the small intestine is specialised for rapid absorption of small soluble food molecules.

requiring constant and precise regulation of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) to sustain the production of new absorptive enterocytes and secretory cells, including Paneth, goblet, tuft, and ...

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 ...