Stress has always been an ugly word, and for good reason. In addition to causing people headaches and sleeplessness, ongoing ...

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 ...

For roughly one in every hundred people, even tiny amounts of gluten can trigger severe symptoms and pose serious health ...

New research suggests that chronic stress disrupts the body’s natural mechanisms for repairing the intestinal lining by ...

One Reelin injection helped stressed rats’ guts resume normal cell turnover and, in earlier tests, reduced despair-like ...

Food goes on a long, complex journey through your body before becoming poo. Each part of the digestive system plays a special ...

You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen. But if you were to look really closely at the inside of the intestine, you would see that it is lined ...

A novel microfluidic device revealing diverse and dynamic flows in the small intestine has now been developed. An innovative experimental platform uses microscopic fluorescent beads as substitutes for ...

In this image, red is the color of absorption. The red cells in this image are enterocytes, which line the walls of your small intestine and are responsible for absorbing nutrients from the food you ...