A study published in the journal Nature, led by Carlene Zindl, Ph.D., and C. Garrett Wilson in the research group of Casey Weaver, M.D., at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, brings new ...

Deep in the folds of the intestine, in microscopic pockets called crypts, a quiet surveillance system is always at work. Stem ...

A new microfluidics cell culture model recapitulates the basic biology of gut touch. “In many ways, it recapitulates the [gastrointestinal] system because the cell bodies of neurons within the gut ...

Beneath the surface of your gut lies a vast network of neurons—as many as in your spinal cord. New research from the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) in Lisbon shows that in mice this "second brain" helps ...

The terms "intestinal barrier" and "intestinal permeability" describe two different aspects of the same anatomical structure, the intestinal wall composed of four layers, the mucosa, the submucosa, ...

Scientists have studied the effects of one of the most common laxatives in the world to reveal more about how the regulation of fluid flow in the gut is related to constipation and diarrhea. These ...

There was a recent flurry of excitement when UK researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research organization in Cambridge, England, announced their creation ...

Nope, this isn’t a small, prickly mammal with a flashy dye job, but a single intestinal epithelial cell. The colorful, hairlike structures are microvilli, which are designed to maximize the cell’s ...

A newly identified subset of intestinal epithelial cells act as both the major target and a key responder in a mouse model of gut infection by the bacteria Citrobacter rodentium BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ...