A car crash destroyed a 25-year-old Phoenix woman's small intestine, leaving her dependent on IV nutrition and often too sick to get out of bed.

When trying to figure out a better design for a bacteria-powered biobattery, Binghamton University researchers found ...

A car crash destroyed a 25-year-old woman's small intestine. It would take three years and placement on multiple hospital ...

High-resolution mass-spectrometry imaging mapped distinct lipid distributions across the tegument, intestine, ovary and ...

Food components not absorbed in the small intestine are sent to the large intestine, where gut bacteria break down (ferment) ...

Mice fed a ketogenic diet developed small-intestine tumors at rates similar to, and in some comparisons higher than, mice on a high-fat, high-calorie diet, yet the keto animals never became obese. The ...

This story is part of a series exploring human anatomy and physiology complexities. Each story in this collection showcases discoveries reshaping our understanding of the body's inner workings, ...

Low back pain that returns immediately after treating the lower back or pelvis. The cause may lie in the small intestine ...

Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...

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