Approximately two-thirds of patients responded to teduglutide, which is sold under the brand name Gattex as a treatment for ...

or what’s called “stem cell harvesting,” you’ll go to a medical center for a special procedure called apheresis. A small needle that’s connected to a catheter, a very tiny tube ...

Every other week, we hear of people suffering from terminal diseases and that can often be difficult for many beyond the ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered how adult stem cells retain their regenerative power.

The gallbladder plays an important role in digestion but hasn’t received much attention in medical research. However, that’s starting to change. With advances in stem cell technology, scientists can ...

11 Department of Surgery, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, Singapore 12 Department of Hematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore Objective ...

A novel drug that produces a temporary coating in the small intestine could be a new strategy for weight loss—and an alternative to surgeries and GLP-1 drugs.

Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Novel Semiconductor-Optoelectronics Materials and Devices, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional ...

The study discovered that the small intestine is a major contributor to ... dysfunction of the mitochondria—the powerhouse of cells—and reduced efficiency in utilising glucose further ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States; Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United ...

Researchers found this region is vital for intestinal regeneration after ... it is essential for activating stem/progenitor cells and restoring normal stem cells expressing the marker Lgr5 ...