These images are produced using advanced imaging techniques that enable us to study the cells found in the human intestine. By utilizing a combination of microscopy and robotic technology ...

What's left in the digestive tract passes into the large intestine, where it's eaten by billions of harmless bacteria and mixed with dead cells to form solid feces. Water is reabsorbed into the ...

These polyps form on the inner walls of the large intestine. Cancerous cells may spread from malignant tumors to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. These cancer cells can ...

to the immune system of the small and large intestines—bypassing the liver upon systemic administration. By simply altering ...

What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...

To present the pioneering concept, Peer and his team encoded the anti-inflammatory protein interleukin-10 into mRNA and ...

Colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer, is a cancer formed by uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine), or in the appendix. Genetic analysis shows that ...

"Everything injected into the bloodstream is eventually ends up in the liver — that's just how our anatomy works," Professor ...

Squash all the remaining moisture and nutrients out using the tea towel, just like the large intestine does. Well, okay, the large intestine doesn't use a tea towel, but it does absorb moisture ...