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

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 ...

What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...

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

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 ...

But the ways in which changes in the microbiome result in changes in the functioning of the intestinal cells are still unclear. The microbiome of the small intestine is distinct from the colon ...

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

Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of tissue called small-intestine submucosa, or SIS, after they discovered more than a decade ago that the small intestine possessed unusual healing ...

Guido Hooiveld’s proof-of-concept study, examining how the small-intestine microbiota influences different blood glucose responses when people eat the same foods, will be enabled by his Global ...

Although rare, tumors in the small intestine can arise ... subset of epithelial cells present within PPs that transport large luminal molecules or microorganisms across the cell membrane.