After every meal, the intestines perform an action called peristalsis - moving food through their hollow interiors with coordinated contractions and relaxations of the smooth muscle.

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

The appendix is one of the most well-known body parts that people can live without. For years, it was considered pretty much ...

In a recent study, FMI researchers have shed light on how intestinal organoids form crypts, the pockets that house stem cells ...