Scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) have created the first lab‑grown ...

A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat ...

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ...

What began as an unexpected observation and “side effect” of some medications converged with decades of addiction neuroscience: GLP-1 receptor agonist medications like Ozempic apparently reduce ...

The intestinal immune system monitors the body’s largest interface with the environment. It must prevent adverse responses to ingested material, while protecting itself from harm, constraining the ...

The appendix may help support the immune system by storing good bacteria. A person can live a normal life without an appendix. The appendix has long been thought to have no significant function in the ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this study, the authors have performed tissue-specific ...

Dr. Anju Goel, MD, MPH, is a public health consultant and physician with more than 10 years of experience in the California public health system. The pancreas is an organ that makes enzymes for ...

Ramnik Xavier, MD, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Science, "Regional encoding of enteric nervous system ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: To measure the expression levels of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in the duodenal bulb mucosa of patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) and to ...