What would you see if you peered inside a human small intestine? Here’s a glimpse at its structure, revealing a community of cells with different functions. A biopsy like this is generally very small ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and prepare ...

During this phase, female hormones influence multiple organs to control and change their structure ... the stem cells in the gut via the RANK/RANKL system and then give the intestinal cells ...

In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine to absorb digested food. If we stretched out all the ...

In our laboratory, we delve into the intricate mechanisms employed by intestinal cells to secure the vital nutrients and metabolic resources essential for preserving intestinal stem cell fate and ...

The (a) intestine, (b) esophagus and (c) stomach are shown. Quiescent stem cells (d) through asymmetric division probably give rise to more rapidly dividing active stem cells, which then produce ...