While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

Adrian Thiessen, an Ontario-based filmmaker and documentarian, was well aware of the irony of swallowing a tiny, pill-sized ...

Caption Left: Representative images of FDG accumulation in the intestinal wall (above) and inside of the intestine (below). Right: Taking metformin results in a larger amount of sugar accumulating ...

Complications from IBD can happen both inside and outside the intestines. During flare-ups, abdominal pain and diarrhea can lead to appetite loss and dehydration, robbing your body of important ...

The model suggests that changes in the volume of intestinal cells and lumen—the fluid-filled cavity inside gut organoids—play a crucial role in modulating the mechanical forces within the tissue.

As Thiessen explained to Futurism over two interviews — the first conducted whilst the camera was still stuck inside him, the second after it ... hard-to-reach spot toward the very end of his small ...