Recent studies reveal that the human appendix plays roles in gut microbiota restoration and immunity, contrary to its ...

In 1972, biochemist Thomas Luckey estimated that each gram of human feces contained one hundred billion bacteria, and that the digestive system held ... than in the large intestine.

The GMoC system is therefore a more complete in vitro model because it replicates, architecturally, the cells lining the human intestine ... the balanced gut microbiota in the gut, scientists ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike ... The first of three sections of the small intestine, the duodenum, produces large quantities of mucus to protect the intestinal lining from ...

Think you know everything there is to know about gut health? Here are four things that might surprise you about your digestive system ... stomach, large and small intestines, rectum and anus.

This was something we also observed in our human ... small intestine is the region of the gut where nutrients, including glucose, are absorbed, it is likely that the small-intestine microbiota ...