A fascinating look at how digestion produces methane and hydrogen—and why your gut can actually create flammable gas.

That’s exactly the kind of uniquely educational experience awaiting you at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – America’s finest cabinet of medical curiosities and quite possibly the most ...

The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a 3D human colon model integrated with bioelectronics to aid in colorectal cancer research and drug discovery. The "3D in vivo ...

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, move, and die, allowing organs like the colon to remain flawlessly ...

Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- ...

This image is a simplified anatomical drawing of the human large intestine, also known as the colon. It shows the different sections of the colon, including the ascending colon, transverse colon, ...

From the candle-lit specula used by Hippocrates to visualize the rectum, to Bozzini's illuminated tubes; from the development of semi-flexible endoscopes during the interwar period to the creation of ...

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