The food additive carrageenan (E 407) can be responsible for the development of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers, and increased blood sugar levels in animals. Researchers have now ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

In a paper published Sept. 24 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report that a flexible pipe—with an interior helical structure inspired by shark intestines—can keep fluid ...

New advances allow scientists to study DNA, RNA, and gene activity in individual cells rather than in bulk tissue samples.

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a ...