In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, NUS scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human intestines condensed into a small chip about half the size of a five ...

What drew you into gut microbiome research? I work with people who suffer from functional gastrointestinal disorders and have a myriad of symptoms, many which change over time. These diseases are ...

In a recent study, FMI researchers have shed light on how intestinal organoids form crypts, the pockets that house stem cells ...

It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

Researchers make more progress toward growing human intestines in mice, paving the way for better models of intestinal function and failure. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she ...

These findings could help scientists design better treatments for bowel diseases, which take an entirely new approach than ...

To explore this, we will use human intestinal cell culture models that will be exposed to the small-intestine content obtained through the catheter, and see what effect these samples have on ...