Scientists have studied one ofd the most common laxatives in the world to reveal more about how the regulation of fluid flow ...

Khaberni - Scientists at Northwestern University have made a new molecular discovery explaining how fluid regulation in the ...

Although constipation and diarrhea may seem like opposite problems, they both hinge on the same underlying issue: how much fluid moves into the gut. These common issues affect millions of people in ...

Although constipation and diarrhea may seem like opposite problems, they both hinge on the same underlying issue: how much ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have identified a metabolic switch that determines whether intestinal stem cells become absorptive or secretory cells. Manipulating the enzyme OGDH ...

Cells on the inner surface of the intestine are replaced every few days. But, how does this work? It was always assumed that cells leave the intestinal surface because excess cells are pushed out. In ...

Nope, this isn’t a small, prickly mammal with a flashy dye job, but a single intestinal epithelial cell. The colorful, hairlike structures are microvilli, which are designed to maximize the cell’s ...

Intestinal tuft cells divide to make new cells when immunological cues trigger them. Additionally, in contrast to progenitor- and stem cells, tuft cells can survive severe injury such as irradiation ...

For Amy Engevik, an epithelial cell biologist at the Medical University of South Carolina who studies cell function in the gastrointestinal tract, protein location matters more than abundance. She ...