The idea of using small intestines to develop biological materials was born eight years ago, when biomedical researchers at Purdue were studying ways to build new types of vascular grafts, or blood ...

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

Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of tissue called small-intestine submucosa, or SIS, after they discovered more than a ... where scientists in the 1980s discovered SIS's healing ...

This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the bloodstream. The blood then carries the useful substances around the body to where they are needed. Partially ...

Guido Hooiveld’s proof-of-concept study, examining how the small-intestine microbiota influences different blood glucose responses when people eat the same foods, will be enabled by his Global ...

This surgical process can be quite intricate. The procedure involves a surgeon extracting the unhealthy portion of the recipient`s small intestine and substituting it with a healthy segment from a ...