Scientists have uncovered an unexpected mechanism by which the gut’s immune system maintains balance, challenging ...

This story is part of a series exploring human anatomy and physiology complexities. Each story in this collection showcases discoveries reshaping our understanding of the body's inner workings, ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom, to shed light on one of the most ...

Years before he conducted the research that would earn him a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, ...

Chronic immune diseases are shaped by multiple inflammatory processes happening at the same time, each in different parts of ...

Fiber has an impeccable reputation: it improves transit, helps you feel lighter and usually appears on any list of healthy ...

The research projects in Michael Snyder, PhD’s lab at Stanford cover a wide range of interests; COVID-19, the NASA twin study, and personal omics profiling to name some examples. Another interest of ...

Resizing of the intestine is a highly conserved strategy employed by a wide range of organisms to cope with fluctuation in nutrient availability. Nevertheless, very little is known about the ...

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Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is an extremely rare disease in which your body can’t absorb enough nutrients from food because part of your small intestine is missing or damaged. The small intestine is ...

The small intestine plays an important role in both digestion and in the endocrine response to regulate blood glucose levels. In the 21st century, a number of drugs have been developed which are based ...