So there I was, on hands and knees, crawling through a 40-foot-long, 4-foot-high human colon. It wasn't a real colon, of course. No human has a colon that size, except maybe Marlon Brando, and I'm ...

Colon cancer is often called a “silent” disease because it usually develops without any obvious warning signs. Many people don’t know what it actually looks like inside the colon or how early changes ...

Researchers have developed a human intestinal cell model that closely mimics the structure and function of the human gut, enabling more precise prediction of drug-induced gastrointestinal toxicity ...

Researchers at the New York Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) have developed what’s described as a highly realistic artificial human colon, a scientific ...

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 ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In a preclinical study, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators showed that the ...

Do our bodies actually need help clearing out waste, or is this ancient practice actually a health risk? ... Read More The post Does your colon really need cleansing? We asked the experts for an ...