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The parents of a newborn baby, Teslim Baruwa, who was delivered with his intestines outside his abdomen, have begged the Osun State Government and other kind-hearted Nigerians to save their son’s life ...

SYNT-101 introduces an innovative method for weight loss by temporarily redirecting nutrient absorption in the small ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

For several years, human intestinal cancer cell lines cultured as monolayers in vitro have served as an alternative model system. However, despite the availability and ease of expansion of ...

New research has suggested that polymer-based tea bags could release micro- and nanoplastics into the bodies of consumers and the environment – however, the study shows not all tea bags are ...

TOKYO -- In a world first, a pipelike "miniature intestine" has been created using human iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells, researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo announced Dec. 10.

These findings highlight the important and largely neglected roles BEST4+ cells likely play in human intestinal function." Together, these findings expand our understanding of intestinal physiology.

That is what researchers from the Organoid group of the Hubrecht Institute found using miniature human intestines grown in the lab. The findings, published in Nature on 2 October 2024, may have ...

However, the function of tuft cells in the human intestinal tract remains unknown due to a lack of human research models. Now, using miniature human intestines grown in the lab, researchers at the ...

A mini model of the human intestines suggests that chlamydia bacteria can colonize the gut, potentially contributing to recurrent infections. When you purchase through links on our site ...