Pulsing movements in an embryo are crucial to helping intestines grow into the wonder tube that it is, a study finds. By Veronique Greenwood In the grayscale of a laboratory video, the little tubes ...

Researchers sheds light on a face-off in the intestines between the immune system and a bacterial pathogen whose family members cause gastrointestinal disease and the plague. The team's insights may ...

Mesenteric artery ischemia is a condition that restricts blood flow to your intestines. Three main arteries, called the mesenteric arteries, supply blood to your small and large intestines. Narrowing ...

Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) affects the movement of food, fluid, air, and waste through the intestines. It can be genetic or develop due to another health condition. CIPO is a rare ...

Do you know that many times all kinds of dirt keeps collecting in your bowels without any external symptoms? And when this dirt becomes excessive (after a while), then you are at increased risk of ...

Inside the African clawed frog, intestines grow just like humans’: neatly coiled counterclockwise. Experiments now show how that process can go awry. Interfering with tadpoles’ metabolism leads to a ...

There are two intestines in our body; one is the small intestine, and the other is the large intestine. These intestines are an important part of the digestive system. The small intestine works to ...