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 ...
Scientists produced 3-D looks at shark’s guts. By Veronique Greenwood The inside of a shark is full of curiosities, starting with rows of hardworking teeth that can be replaced by fresh ones ...
In 1920, Serbian-born inventor Nikola Tesla designed and patented what he called a “valvular conduit”: a pipe whose internal design ensures that a fluid will flow in one preferred direction, with no ...
The intestines rely on different strategies to rebuild themselves in response to diet changes vs. infections, according to a new Cornell study – a finding that can shed light on how gut health adapts ...
According to a new study, slowing the aging of your intestines may be vital to slowing overall aging. An experiment on zebrafish showed that if the aging of just that one organ was slowed through DNA ...
Hello. This is Hachiware.According to the calendar it is autumn, but does your body still have "summer damage" remaining?Cold ...
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 ...
New research clarifies how stem cells repair the intestines. To act as a robust barrier against pathogens while also absorbing needed nutrients, the lining of the intestines must regenerate on a daily ...