Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), which include ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), are chronic conditions ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...

Reportedly, intestinal probiotics can affect the renewal of intestinal epithelial cells, and also make cell connections closer, increase the production of tight junction proteins and mucins, promote ...

Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, serves as an important model organism for studying intestinal stem cell (ISC) biology. Research in this area has revealed how various ...

Study reveals how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of both food allergies and intestinal diseases.

Scientists have used advanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography (XPCT) to uncover how gut health may influence Alzheimer’s disease.

Food allergy, or the aggressive immune system reaction following the consumption of a certain food or food ingredient, ...

Background and aims: Coeliac disease is a common small intestinal inflammatory disorder that results from a breach of intestinal tolerance to dietary gluten proteins, driven by gluten-reactive ...

A method for genetically barcoding Drosophila is developed and used to tag defined cell populations in vivo for single-cell transcriptomics experiments and to enable multiplexed behavioral analysis.