University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

With a rising prevalence of gastrointestinal issues among Americans, Live It Up broke down the five most common conditions.

After decades of planning and construction, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to begin a 10-year survey of the southern ...

He studies the bacteria that live inside the human gut. He told me that the small intestine and the large intestine do different jobs. Let’s say you sink your teeth into some pizza.

LANGENBECK, in 1839, is credited with first recognizing yeasts, probably of the genus candida, in material obtained from the intestine at autopsy. 1 During the ensuing years sporadic reports ...

Their results indicated that first, glucose is excreted in the jejunum, a part of the small intestine, from where it is then transported inside the gut to the large intestine and the rectum.

Step inside Asst. Prof. Sam Light’s lab to learn how scientists are mapping the incredible network of microbes living inside your gut—and how they can affect health or disease. ... The large ...

The microvilli give the inside of the intestine the look and feel of velvet. Each microvillus contains a minute blood capillary. ... Indigestible food passes into the large intestine.

Brooke ileostomy consists of pulling the end part of the small intestine through a cut in the abdomen to allow the bowels to empty while bypassing the large intestine and the colon. An ileostomy ...

Large intestine: The last part of your small intestine (ileum) ... Ultrasound: The use of high-frequency sound waves to produce images of the organs and structures inside the body.

This is no way to do your own colonoscopy. Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.