Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human ...

In the animal kingdom, the vertebrate intestine is renowned for its regenerative capacity, a vital process for maintaining ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

The digestive system comprises several organs, all working in concert to turn the food you eat into energy. But sometimes, illness or injury can lead to a digestive disease that threatens your ...

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) is a rare digestive disorder. If you have ZES, you likely have 1 or more tumors in the first part of the small intestine, the pancreas, or both. These tumors are ...

The cells that line your small intestine have to balance two seemingly ... so the immune system keeps them as back-ups in the deeper parts of the tissue," adds Reina-Campos. What keeps these ...

An IBEC-led study describes the development of an innovative method to control the formation of crypt-like structures and villi in the intestine ... This work is part of Enara Larrañaga's ...

People with the skin condition psoriasis often have invisible inflammation in the small intestine with an increased propensity for "leaky gut," according to new research at Uppsala University.

In Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part,” newly translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, the narrator visits a friend who is in the hospital after severing the tips of ...

Louise Thompson has opened up about her future health procedures on her podcast, He Said She Said. The Lucky author and Made In Chelsea star has been battling with ulcerative colitis and was ...